Adam Rogan
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Students line up outside Waller Elementary, 195 Gardner Ave., in Burlington on Monday, the first day of in-person school being back in session in more than five months.
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MADISON
— In a new handbook, the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction
has laid out the situations in which single classrooms, schools and
entire school districts should consider shutting down because of
COVID-19.
The
state so far has generally allowed its more than 440 public school
districts and private schools decide for themselves how they plan to
continue educating Wisconsin’s youth amid the novel coronavirus
pandemic. This plan, of allowing localities to make their own
decision, is in
line with what most states are doing.
Most
school districts plan to have some form of socially distanced
in-person education to start the year. The
Burlington Area School District, for example, is already back to
school.
But Racine Unified is one of several more urban school districts
starting the year completely virtually.
But
DPI’s handbook — “Guidelines
for the Prevention, Investigation, and Control of COVID-19 Outbreaks
in K-12 Schools in Wisconsin,” which was published this month —
gives guidance about when canceling in-person education should be
considered.
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According
to the handbook, DPI suggests that “school and district
administrators should consider temporary classroom, school or
districtwide closures” if any of the following situations arises
“outbreak mitigation measures” are implemented and are still
“ineffectual at halting” an outbreak within a
school/classroom/district.
Beyond
that, DPI has specific guidelines for when a closure should be at
least considered for solitary classrooms or “student cohort,” for
an entire school, or for a whole school district.
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