Portales High Required To Close Based On COVID Spread
NMPED News:
SANTA FE — Portales High School became the second of New Mexico’s 840 public schools to face a mandatory return to remote instruction based on COVID-19 spread following widespread school reentry April 5.
The Roosevelt County school of almost 800 students received a mandatory closure order Friday based on four Rapid Responses in 14 days, the state’s conservative threshold to prevent spread of the novel coronavirus.
Per the order, the school may return to in-person instruction May 21.
Some districts or schools have returned voluntarily to remote instruction temporarily since April 5 due to some aspect of the pandemic. For example, some schools found they had too few students or staff members for in-person learning due to quarantines of close contacts. Others decided after a few school-related cases to return to remote learning in an abundance of caution before reaching the threshold.