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The district only reversed course on its quarantine requirements when the state threatened to sue. But it still has no plans to offer COVID-19 testing to students or to require masks, despite both being recommended by public"Testing is not offered by the school system, and it is offered within the county," said Tahira Stalberte, assistant superintendent for communications and community relations at Union County Public Schools.
The options for school districts range from working with the state government to stand up a screening program, outsourcing the testing and screening process to a third party vendor, or completely overseeing the student testing process themselves, which many school administrators -- particularly in smaller districts -- have described as an impossible task without additional support.
As matters like testing and mask-wearing remain fraught, highly politicized issues, school districts that find themselves in disagreement with their governors on these matters have had to adopt a go-it-alone approach.Iowa’s Republican Gov. Kim Reynolds rejected $95 million in federal funds offered to the state for in-school coronavirus testing, complicating matters for school districts urgently looking for funding to establish testing.
Some school districts that have been slow to implement systematic testing have found themselves in the difficult position of choosing between overseeing the logistics of managing a COVID-19 screening programs at the beginning of a new school year or involving third-party vendors to manage them.
We Afghan women are reqesting the UN; don' give Afghanistan representation to the Pakistani nurished terrorist groups, called Taliban. Keep the seat empty till a legal democratic government came in Kabul, Afghanistan. We have to defeate terrorism to win democracy.
Some are outright refusing to take the necessary precautions to protect the kids
'Knowingly taking actions that undermine public health is properly called sabotage, as surely as putting anthrax in the water supply.' ~MJGerson Abbott DeSantis thread:
Spread of the hoax- here, I fixed the headline for you. You are welcome.
This is why school choice is crucial! I’d be angry if my school did test and mask my children. My child is more at risk of dying from the Flu or getting hit by lighting than dying from Covid
¨Some parents are angry¨ VS ¨public good¨
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