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.
Between roles as Cambridge’s special ed expert and finalist to lead in Arlington, strife in Sharon
Former assistant superintendent for student services Victoria Greer is in the running to be Arlington’s next school superintendent. She brings strong credentials and support from a search committee, and may leave behind a clash over race in the town of Sharon.
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.
Coronavirus ended district enrollment growth despite safety measures of city’s public schools
Parents have taken 402 elementary-age students out of Cambridge Public Schools this year, making for the first decline in enrollment since the 2006-2007 academic year and ending 13 consecutive years of enrollment growth, district officials said.
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.
Nearly 300 teachers wanted Covid adjustments, committee learns at update on reopened schools
The first yellow school buses reappeared on Cambridge streets last week, and an initial glimpse into the reopening of the public schools was provided at the School Committee meeting on Tuesday.
