Thanksgiving
Aspen schools to go online for week after Thanksgiving break
The Aspen School District will take Thanksgiving week off before its schools use the week of Nov. 30 through Dec. 4 as remote learning. Superintendent David Baugh made the announcement Friday after in a blast email. The high school already was scheduled to have online class through Dec. 4; now the elementary and middle schools …
Technology helps bring families together for a virtual Thanksgiving
Technology helps bring families together for a virtual Thanksgiving In a year like no other many families will be physically apart this Thanksgiving, but technology is helping to bring them together. PHOENIX – Thanksgiving celebrations are likely going to be a lot smaller in 2020 because of the pandemic. In fact, electronics will be joining the …
QPS urges families to follow health guidelines on Thanksgiving break
QUINCY (WGEM) — Thanksgiving Break is less than a week away for Quincy Public Schools. Superintendent Roy Webb is emphasizing the importance for families and students to abide by the health department’s COVID-19 precautions. Webb said this week’s spike in COVID-19 cases impacted the district’s staff and bus drivers. “Our real push is to work …
Summit School District to move all online following Thanksgiving break
Superintendent Marion Smith Jr. works in his office in Frisco on July 22. At a school board meeting Thursday, Nov. 19, Smith said he could not ask his staff to do any more as cases continue to skyrocket. KEYSTONE — After 13 weeks of hybrid learning, Summit School District will be moving all online Nov. …
Local students set for Thanksgiving break – 95.5 WSB
This is the last day of class for students and teachers in the Clarke County School District: those K through 8 students who are taking classes in person and the Clarke Central and Cedar Shoals High School students who are taking their classes on-line will be off for next week’s Thanksgiving break. Oconee County schools …
Dickson Co. Schools closing for Thanksgiving break early due to COVID-19
CHARLOTTE, Tenn. (WTVF) — Dickson County Schools’ Director of Schools Danny Weeks announced the district will be on break the entire week of Nov. 23, due to the increased number of COVID-19 cases in the community. “While we are doing all we can in school to limit the spread of the virus, we are seeing …
Mumford ISD seeing COVID-19 cases grow before Thanksgiving Break
MUMFORD, Texas (KBTX) – Mumford school officials are warning about a new spike in COVID-19 cases. The district says they are aware of nine confirmed cases at the school this week, five of them students. They hadn’t seen many problems until now. “It does concern me,” said Sylvia Gutierrez, a Mumford ISD Grandparent. She has …
CDC Urges Americans Not to Travel for Thanksgiving
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention strongly urged Americans Thursday not to travel for Thanksgiving, in one of its sharpest warnings to date, as an official said the agency is alarmed by the exponential growth in Covid-19 cases, as well as rising hospitalizations and deaths. With the pandemic in its 11th month in the …
Utah’s mask mandate, health orders will be extended through Thanksgiving
SALT LAKE CITY — Utah’s Department of Health intends to extend its public health orders that limit gatherings and impose a statewide mask mandate. During a briefing before the Utah State Legislature’s Interim Health & Human Services Committee, the executive director of UDOH also outlined for lawmakers what guidance they were giving for families who …