Dr. Eller says they will continue to monitor schools and positive cases closely. The situation and policies can change daily, but their ultimate goal is do all they can to keep students and staff healthy.
Teachers walk a fine line between talking about September 11, 2001, and also protecting their students’ innocence. But one Pleasant Grove librarian was able to find a delicate balance.
The state now has a better idea of how students performed in school during the pandemic. New scores were released for the Alabama Comprehensive Assessment Program. The Alabama State Department of Education is focused on the pandemic, mental health, and academic recovery as another school year with COVID is underway.
The director recorded a Facebook live message Wednesday directed to parents, citing a shortage of truck drivers and manufacturer workers as some of the reasons why they can’t get certain kinds of food.
The debate at school board meetings over topics like in-school instruction, vaccines or masks has reached a fever pitch and state superintendent Dr. Eric Mackey says some incidents have crossed the line.
Creekview Elementary School teacher Ashlee Elliott felt such compassion after talking with a Grandview ICU nurse that she rallied her third grade students and others in her Alabaster community and put together care bags for COVID ICU nurses at Grandview.
The city’s attorney says it was an easy decision to authorize this money for the schools. He commended teachers and faculty as they continue to maneuver through the pandemic.
In a letter to parents, guardians and staff, Dr. Vickers said the decision is based on practices that mitigate the spread of COVID-19 and decrease the number of isolations and quarantines.
Bessemer Schools Superintendent Dr. Autumm Jeter said the students engaged in their First Amendment rights by stepping out of the classroom to protest. Jeter said she and school leaders acknowledge the students’ rights and she thanked them for being peaceful.
The grim reality of the situation caused health leaders to warn that if the state continued on that track, more schools would need to switch to virtual learning.
The school will open in a temporary location at the Foundation of Life Church while a permanent facility is being built at the Bessemer Municipal Airport.
The mask requirement inside all Talladega County school facilities and on school buses for all students (K-12), employees, and visitors will continue for another three week period.
Superintendent Dr. Lewis Brooks announced Thursday Shelby County Schools will move to a mask mandate starting on Monday, August 30, 2021. Some parents voiced their opposition Thursday evening during the school board meeting.
Officials with Winston County Schools are asking parents of students in the county to consider allowing their kids to do remote learning next week in order to help reduce the spread of COVID-19.
TCSS Public Relations Director Terri Brewer said no board members proposed a change to optional mask procedures in Monday’s TCSS board meeting. Superintendent Keri Johnson said that the student COVID positivity rate is currently around 1 percent.
The nationwide workforce crisis is also hitting the education system especially hard. This is all due to a mass exodus of teachers who are tired of dealing with the stress of COVID, and things do not seem to be heading in the right direction.
Alabama Rep. Andrew Sorrell hopes his anti-mask mandate bill gets rid of all mandates in K-12 schools and instead allow parents to choose whether their child wears a mask in school.
That means 100 percent of the students who graduated this year also started at the school and stayed in school. It’s the first time in the school’s history.
While each school district must decide the best ways to safeguard its students, Children’s of Alabama firmly believes that masking, social distancing and vaccination are most effective in preventing the spread of the virus.
Beginning August 24, masking will be required in all indoor spaces in the Leeds City Schools, for both the vaccinated & unvaccinated. Exceptions will be made when people are eating or exercising.
Fowler said the Hoover Police Department and the school system’s security team investigated and they do not believe the threat is imminent, and they think the credibility is questionable.
The facility will offer quality education and training that will prepare Alabama’s future workforce for careers in high demand jobs such as agriculture, hospitality training, health care and information technology.
Tuscaloosa doctors are hoping the Tuscaloosa County School District will re-evaluate its pandemic policies, telling the school board that changes are needed.
Some Chilton Co. Schools are changing their mask policy from optional to mandatory as the number of COVID-19 positive cases and exposures steadily increases throughout the district, according to the superintendent.
