NOLA Public Schools officials today announced that they will shift K-12 students to distance learning district-wide this week. An announcement said this is being done " to best protect the health and safety of our students, their families, and our staff and teachers."
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"School leaders were instructed Monday to move all Pre-K-12 classes to distance learning no later than Thursday, Jan. 7, to give parents, guardians, and families some time to adjust their schedules," the school system said. "NOLA-PS will continue to monitor COVID-19 data and trends and reevaluate this decision no sooner than Jan. 21, in hopes that the local trend in positivity rates and case counts improves."
"All along, we have taken a very measured approach as we respond to the shifting circumstances of this pandemic," NOLA-PS Superintendent Dr. Henderson Lewis, Jr. said. "Citywide data over the past few days has shown a dramatic uptick in positivity rates, and so, based upon the advice of our health advisors, we felt we had to make the very unfortunate but necessary decision to return to distance learning to keep our students, staff, teachers and community safe. We recognize this will be extremely difficult for our families and hope that everyone takes the necessary precautions to reverse the spread of this terrible virus."
School officials say they will re-evaluate no sooner than January 21.
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