Two weeks before the deadline for Massachusetts nursing homes to have all employees fully vaccinated against Covid-19, the staff vaccination rate at one city facility shot up to 99 percent from 77 percent. Meanwhile, Cambridge doesn’t appear closer to requiring vaccination for its employees.

Interim schools superintendent Victoria Greer has a clean slate from which to improve things and to not play the game the usual way. A fresh start that focuses on data and gets widespread buy-in for a reset presents real hope for Cambridge Public Schools.

Public meetings this week look at long-term school building plans, Covid-19 safety measures for students and educators, experts’ assessment of the  “Heart” proposal for alternative public safety, and more.

The Cambridge Public Health Department is offering free flu shots and Covid-19 vaccinations at the same four vaccine clinics this month. Residents can walk in, or they can register and make an appointment to say which shots they need.

Public meetings this week look at answers for after-school programs that fell short this fall, taking questions about public safety, student votes on School Committee issues, and a boutique hotel and apartments planned in Central Square.

Teenage psychiatric patients in a recently opened unit at the Cambridge Health Alliance Somerville campus had to move back to their original space at Cambridge Hospital this week when a major water main break shut down the Somerville building.

A Norfolk Superior Court judge has postponed a hearing in the anti-mask lawsuit filed against the state education department, Cambridge, the Cambridge schools and six other local school systems after the state sought to consolidate a growing number of similar suits.

The city will reconsider its decision to end free Covid-19 testing for people on foot or bicycle at the CambridgeSide mall after councillors pushed to reinstate the option, and residents may be able to get vaccines and booster shots at large public flu vaccination clinics scheduled for next month.

Public meetings this week look at after-school program problems, big changes in a Kendall Square project, conflict over neighborhood conservation districts, construction on the former East Cambridge courthouse, Subcentral adding dancing in Central Square and more.

A group of parents and activists based in Bristol and Plymouth counties has sued the state education department, Cambridge, its school district and 13 other school districts, contending that their mask mandates for schoolchildren are illegal.