State Adjusts Student Learning Options
The Oregon Health Authority and the Oregon Department of Education released an update to the Ready Schools, Safe Learners guidance. Right now, about 175,000 students in Oregon are attending school in person. Governor Kate Brown issued an executive order requiring all Oregon public schools to offer universal access to hybrid or full in-person instruction by the weeks of March 29 for grades K-5, and April 19 for grades 6-12. What does this all mean? Some key changes from the guidance:
There’s a simplified table showing how schools will use county case rates, case counts and test positive rates to decide when to offer on-site or hybrid learning and when they might limit instruction to distance learning only.