Loiederman Middle School, Harmony Hills, Pine Crest and Wheaton Woods elementary schools and the autism program at Westover Elementary School temporarily will cease in-school classes as of Jan. 31. They are expected to reopen their doors Feb. 10, according to an MCPS Community Message issued Thursday evening...
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The Maryland State Board of Education wants all schools to reopen for in-person instruction five days a week this fall, according to a resolution approved Tuesday.
The board said students should be able to attend 180 days a year with a teacher in the classroom, however, it offered school systems the option to seek an exception from the requirement. State school board president Clarence Crawford said the resolution is not legally binding, but is a warning to school systems that state regulations requiring schools to be open for all students will be in effect next school year...
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...The infrastructure developed through Project Quaker will allow Penn to conduct 40,000 saliva-based COVID-19 tests every week. This includes twice-weekly tests for undergraduate students and those living on campus and weekly tests for graduate students, faculty, and staff who come to campus or who have regular contact with the campus community.
The goal is to test broadly and repeatedly to identify individuals with COVID-19 as early as possible in order to shut down transmission. The strategy incorporates approaches that have proven successful on other college campuses. “What we focused on here is screening testing,” says Dubé about Project Quaker’s design. “This is one of our public health tools that allows us to monitor disease. If we see a rise in cases, it tells us that we need to change the restrictions that we put on members of our community.”..
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Readers reached out to The Capital to point out the response, in which Hogan dismisses the knowledge of a person whose appointment he approved less than two years ago. In a statement, County Executive Steuart Pittman invited Hogan to speak with Kalyanaraman, who declined to comment for this story...
...The move appears to contradict the plan Hogan outlined in April. That plan listed entertainment venues, larger social and religious gatherings, and high-capacity bars and restaurants as “high-risk.” According to the plan, high-risk businesses can’t open without “either a widely available and FDA-approved vaccine or safe and effective therapeutics that can rescue patients with significant disease or prevent serious illness in those most at risk to reach a full return to normal conditions.”
Asked about this discrepancy during Tuesday’s press conference, Hogan said things have changed since the spring.
“The plan has changed a lot since April when we put that out,” Hogan said. “We've already opened a number of phase three things in phase two, and we did a number of phase two things in phase one. So it’s an evolving process.”..
