(KNSI) – Education Minnesota, the state’s largest teachers’ union, says it is worried about the dial turns taking effect today and how a new resurgence in cases could lead to unsafe reopenings of school buildings.
As part of the state’s Safe Learning Plan, Governor Tim Walz allows districts to make their own choices for when it is safe to reopen, rather than following the new cases per 10,000 county data from earlier.
Elementary schools can reopen for in-person learning next week provided that there are COVID-19 tests for staff every other week, government-provided masks and face shields are required for staff, face masks are required for students at all times, including gym class and indoor recess, and social distancing guidelines must be followed.
Education Minnesota President Denise Specht said in a statement, “Educators want to be back in their buildings with their students when conditions are safe and sustainable. But right now, we’re growing concerned that a post-holiday spike of infections fueled by the new COVID-19 variant and transmission in bars, restaurants and gyms will come together with delays in testing and vaccinations to make reopening school buildings impossible in many communities.”
School districts are not required to return kids to school buildings if they choose not to. Families are also under no obligation to allow their students to return to in-person learning if parents are uncomfortable.
Several area school districts, including Sauk Rapids-Rice and St. Cloud Area School District 742, have announced plans to return students in pre-k through fifth grade to a hybrid learning model on January 19th.
The Minnesota Department of Health says there have been 11,652 cases associated with preschool students through 12th grade. More than 59-hundred of those are school staff. Just over 57-hundred are students.
Education Minnesota is also calling on Governor Walz to allow teachers to be considered among priority groups like first responders and healthcare workers to get a COVID-19 vaccination.
(KNSI) – Education Minnesota, the state’s largest teachers’ union, says it is worried about the dial turns taking effect today and how a new resurgence in cases could lead to unsafe reopenings of school buildings.
As part of the state’s Safe Learning Plan, Governor Tim Walz allows districts to make their own choices for when it is safe to reopen, rather than following the new cases per 10,000 county data from earlier.
Elementary schools can reopen for in-person learning next week provided that there are COVID-19 tests for staff every other week, government-provided masks and face shields are required for staff, face masks are required for students at all times, including gym class and indoor recess, and social distancing guidelines must be followed.
Education Minnesota President Denise Specht said in a statement, “Educators want to be back in their buildings with their students when conditions are safe and sustainable. But right now, we’re growing concerned that a post-holiday spike of infections fueled by the new COVID-19 variant and transmission in bars, restaurants and gyms will come together with delays in testing and vaccinations to make reopening school buildings impossible in many communities.”
School districts are not required to return kids to school buildings if they choose not to. Families are also under no obligation to allow their students to return to in-person learning if parents are uncomfortable.
Several area school districts, including Sauk Rapids-Rice and St. Cloud Area School District 742, have announced plans to return students in pre-k through fifth grade to a hybrid learning model on January 19th.
The Minnesota Department of Health says there have been 11,652 cases associated with preschool students through 12th grade. More than 59-hundred of those are school staff. Just over 57-hundred are students.
Education Minnesota is also calling on Governor Walz to allow teachers to be considered among priority groups like first responders and healthcare workers to get a COVID-19 vaccination.
(KNSI) – Education Minnesota, the state’s largest teachers’ union, says it is worried about the dial turns taking effect today and how a new resurgence in cases could lead to unsafe reopenings of school buildings.
As part of the state’s Safe Learning Plan, Governor Tim Walz allows districts to make their own choices for when it is safe to reopen, rather than following the new cases per 10,000 county data from earlier.
Elementary schools can reopen for in-person learning next week provided that there are COVID-19 tests for staff every other week, government-provided masks and face shields are required for staff, face masks are required for students at all times, including gym class and indoor recess, and social distancing guidelines must be followed.
Education Minnesota President Denise Specht said in a statement, “Educators want to be back in their buildings with their students when conditions are safe and sustainable. But right now, we’re growing concerned that a post-holiday spike of infections fueled by the new COVID-19 variant and transmission in bars, restaurants and gyms will come together with delays in testing and vaccinations to make reopening school buildings impossible in many communities.”
School districts are not required to return kids to school buildings if they choose not to. Families are also under no obligation to allow their students to return to in-person learning if parents are uncomfortable.
Several area school districts, including Sauk Rapids-Rice and St. Cloud Area School District 742, have announced plans to return students in pre-k through fifth grade to a hybrid learning model on January 19th.
The Minnesota Department of Health says there have been 11,652 cases associated with preschool students through 12th grade. More than 59-hundred of those are school staff. Just over 57-hundred are students.
Education Minnesota is also calling on Governor Walz to allow teachers to be considered among priority groups like first responders and healthcare workers to get a COVID-19 vaccination.
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