Mourning staff death from Covid-19 is backdrop for a change in how to weigh in-person learning
The December death of school district staff member James “Jimmy” Ravanis moved the risk of Covid-19 transmission from an abstraction to reality for some this week, adding weight to passage of a new method of deciding in-person classes versus remote learning as the pandemic continues.
New guidelines would look only within schools when deciding whether to go to remote learning
Cambridge Public Schools enter 2021 with debate and decisions that will reshape the school year. A change in how to decide between in-person or remote learning will be discussed and voted on Tuesday.
School Committee considering three changes around Covid-19 response, in-person classes
The School Committee will discuss or vote on three key changes to its Covid-19 response at its special meeting Tuesday: to reduce social distancing requirements; change quarantine rules; and reassess how Covid-19 metrics are used to gauge the safety of in-person learning.
Post-holiday Covid leap for in-person students, and likely adult-to-kids transmission seen too
Contract tracing efforts show it’s highly likely two children contracted Covid-19 from adults while at in-person classes in Cambridge Public Schools, city councillors learned Monday. The district will offer testing to more students as it prepares to expand in-person classes.
School district refocuses Covid-19 metrics, reaches out to diversify its decision-making
New Cambridge-centric metrics of the risk of Covid-19 transmission in public schools have been approved by the School Committee, and the district has taken steps to ensure it includes perspectives from the city’s diverse population in its decision-making.
Amigos School goes all remote through Nov. 30 after report of latest positive test for coronavirus
A new positive Covid-19 case at the Amigos school that moved two in-person classrooms into closure and quarantine – in addition to the three classrooms placed in quarantine in the past two weeks – has closed the school to all in-person classes until Nov. 30.
Vote stalls, days from ending in-person learning, over a lack of diversity in deciding Covid metrics
Schools will close Tuesday to in-person learning if new coronavirus metrics aren’t adopted. That will mean also resolving issues regarding inclusion in the decision process.
Looking at Covid-19 data from county and state moves schools toward end of in-person learning
The three metrics that act as a barometer for Covid-19 infections in Cambridge Public Schools are nearing the thresholds that will trigger the closing of in-person learning.
In reopened schools, one student tests positive, staff Covid screening data low in an ‘aberration’
The first reported case of a Cambridge Public Schools student who tested positive for Covid-19 was revealed by the state over the weekend, while district officials reported 490 tests administered to a staff of roughly 1,000 people in district buildings.
Q&A: How the city, schools and state cooperate on coronavirus testing and results day to day
Kristin Ward, performance management and quality improvement specialist at Cambridge’s Public Health Department, answered questions ob how the department works with Cambridge Public Schools administrators to respond to Covid-19 issues.
