ST. LOUIS (KMOX) - As local school administrators put together plans to reopen for the fall semester, they are scouring the Earth for guidance.
The 59 area superintendents and principals who are members of Education Plus spent Wednesday morning checking out what's being done in Australia, Israel, Germany, South Korea and China.
"Each of them had a different take on the way they brought students back," says CEO Paul Ziegler. "Whether that was with a mask or with different distancing policies in place."
"Schools haven't been a real hotbed for contracting the virus or spreading the virus, at this point," he says. "Now granted," he adds, "that's based on what we know now. That could change if we see another country that opens with some different standards in place."
Education Plus members plan to release reopening plans on July 20, but with COVID still spreading, Ziegler says those plans will probably be written in pencil rather than in ink.