(Hartford, Conn.WTIC)-School districts statewide want to continue the model of keeping students in class as long as possible, a top education said today.
That's as long as they remain a safe environment, says Fran Rabinowitz, the Executive Director of the Connecticut Association of Public School Superintendents.
"They want to get as much time in that they can get, especially with younger children", she said. "The health and safety of students is the number of one priority. If students bring covid into the school that's interesting, because transmission doesn't happen in the schools, it happens outside."
Rabinowitz says she confers with about one hundred Superintendents on a weekly basis.
She says a major concern is, as the number increase, contact tracing becomes more difficult. "If that multiplies, it is an arduous process to identify and then in conjunction with the Department of Public Health to contact the family and explain the instructional methods for the next fourteen days."
Rabinowitz appeared on the WTIC morning show.