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Back to School
Local school districts making COVID-19 reopening plans
BY JANIE SLAVEN
COMMONWEALTH JOURNAL
The phrase “back to school”
usually brings to mind a number
of images: backpacks, buses, long
drop-off lines, football practice,
falling leaves.
Nothing will stop the leaves
from falling with the change of
seasons but the novel coronavirus
(COVID-19) pandemic will most
certainly change just about
everything else about going back to
school.
The three public school systems
in Pulaski County are still waiting
to finalize their plans for returning
to class for the 2020-21 school year.
Much of those plans will depend on
the guidance from Kentucky health
and education officials.
The Kentucky Department of
Education’s Education Continuation
Task Force is considering the five
best public health practices to keep
students, teachers and staff safe
as schools soon resume in-person
instruction, including requirements
for wearing masks, sanitizing
hands and surfaces, conducting
temperature checks, contact tracing
and enforcing social distancing.
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