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The Alachua County School Board held a public Zoom meeting to discuss and vote on policies that would be enforced in the 2020-2021 school year. Choose the plan that’s right for you. Click on the "Return to School" link. The Alachua County School Board is holding a special meeting to discuss their school reopening plans. Alachua County School Board Postpones Reopening To Aug. 31Alachua County School Board Postpones Reopening To Aug. 31 Skip navigation Sign in. They included pushing the … The school board waited until after they finished the week to do the same. Superintendent Karen Clarke will be bringing forward two recommendations for a Board vote. Think about that - “oh there’s a deadly virus in town let’s finish out the week” - something is wrong with this organization. Digital access or digital and print delivery. With the start of school moved back one week, teachers’ pre-planning days will now run from Aug. 24 to Aug. 28 without compensation for the additional training days.At 1:30 p.m., the members passed a 3-2 vote officially delaying the school district’s reopening to the end of the month.The near 5-hour meeting adjourned after an official vote to postpone reopening schools to Aug. 31, with teachers’ pre-planning moved to the week of Aug. 24. The Alachua County School Board on Wednesday voted to delay the start of fall reopening — again. Myers said because the populations in those municipalities are much lower than surrounding cities, he is not as concerned about those numbers.The next highest rate is in Newberry, which has about 29 cases per 1,000 residents. Alachua County School Board website is the link for more information and ways to join in the discussion. The postponement will allow a critical meeting of the Alachua County School Board to be aired on Cox Channel 12, and on streaming video at 9 a.m. tomorrow morning (Wednesday, August 12). ALACHUA COUNTY, Fla. (WCJB) -Wednesday, July 15th, is aspecial meeting for the Alachua County School Board where members will vote on plans to reopen.
I’ve dealt … Sign up for our daily or breaking newsletters to stay informed. Alachua County Public Schools. Both are marked by a fever or chills, cough, sore throat, fatigue, nausea, diarrhea, congestion and body aches.“Shortness of breath is the only symptom that is present in COVID-19 but not the flu,” he said.Myers also shared with commissioners the most recently available virus data.Over the past two weeks, more than 15,000 virus tests have been administered in the county, with a 6.3% positivity rate.When it comes to virus mortality, Myers said that hypertension, diabetes and heart disease are some of the greatest risk factors that are strongly related to COVID-19 deaths.He also gave a preview of information he prepared for the superintendent of Alachua County Public Schools, which will be discussed in full at Wednesday’s meeting.A breakdown of the most recent local virus metrics show that Alachua County has had a total of 325 cases for children under 18 years old, about 7.7% of total local cases.The overall positivity rate for children under 18 in the county is 8.4%, compared with 15.1% statewide.Two local children have been hospitalized with complications from COVID-19, compared with 436 throughout the state.There have been no local child deaths due to COVID-19 but seven deaths under 18 in Florida.Myers said the department of health is developing a contract with a local lab to have access to 3,000 tests that would specifically be used to administer to K-12 students and staff.If a student is suspected to have the virus, he said, the student, along with the entire class, would be tested.The health department is also in talks to potentially buy multiple machines that will be able to provide test results within 30-45 minutes.