Maryland schools must prepare for fall online learning if coronavirus spread continues, superintendent says

The Baltimore Sun story:

Maryland public schools must be prepared to continue teaching classes online into the fall and winter if the spread of the coronavirus continues or makes a resurgence, the state’s top education official said Wednesday.

Speaking to a bipartisan work group of Maryland lawmakers, State Superintendent of Schools Karen B. Salmon said she is ramping up online and distance-learning capabilities in case schools must remain closed into the 2020-2021 academic year. Some epidemiologists have said the state could see a second wave of the virus in the fall.

“I’m not sure we are going to be doing school in the same way going forward,” Salmon told lawmakers. “We’re not sure that is not something that we’re going to revisit in the fall or the winter."

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Below is video of the statement that Maryland State Superintendent of Schools Karen Salmon made today at the  Meeting of the Joint Covid-19 Response Legislative Workgroup.