11/17/20-Despite COVID-19 rise, NJ sticks with plan to allow schools to decide instruction plans locally
- November 17 2020
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Despite COVID-19 rise, NJ sticks with plan to allow schools to decide instruction plans locally
November 13, 2020 | njspotlight.com
With COVID-19 rates rising nationwide, school officials in a number of large cities — including Philadelphia, Boston and Washington, D.C. — are opting for online education to try to preempt the surge of coronavirus cases that experts predict for the weeks to come.
But in New Jersey, where nearly 10,500 new cases have been diagnosed this week, state leaders said Thursday that they will stick to the current plan that allows district and local health officials to decide what is best for the community’s schools. Currently, roughly one in five districts is providing remote lessons only, they said, and relatively few outbreaks have been tied directly to schools.
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