Department of Defense mandates mask usage on military installations
Senior Airman Aldo Estrada, 860th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron communication and navigation systems technician at Travis Air Force Base, poses for a portrait at Travis, Friday, Aug. 28, 2020. Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III signed a memo Thursday, Feb. 4, 2021, that directs all individuals on military installations to wear masks in any location other than the individual’s home. (Chustine Minoda/U.S. Air Force file photo)
By Department of Defense News
Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III signed a memo Feb. 4 that, effective immediately, directs all individuals on military installations and all individuals performing official duties on behalf of the Department from any location other than the individual’s home, including outdoor shared spaces, to wear masks.
St. Louis Public Radio
Ja na Kelly poses in front of University City High School. She s a senior at the high school, though she s hardly been inside since March. She had to navigate school and now college admissions virtually.
Without extracurricular activities or standardized test scores, students with ambitious college plans are doing so without the resume they had hoped would win over admissions officers.
This is not the year for the college road trip. Instead, it’s been all about clicking through virtual campus tours.
Parker Kopplin is a senior at Ritenour High School in St. Louis County, and that’s where he was when he explored the campus of UCLA.
St. Louis Public Radio
Students are scheduled to again walk the halls of Lift For Life Academy, which were once part of a bank, in January for the first time since the pandemic forced schools to close.
More St. Louis-area high school students will have the opportunity after the Christmas break to learn from inside a classroom instead of their homes.
That’s if plans from school leaders hold over the next several weeks. Administrators stress that all plans are tentative when trying to run a school district during a pandemic.
Several school districts in the region told St. Louis Public Radio they plan to add or resume in-person learning options for middle and high school students in January, in most cases after an all-virtual buffer week following the holidays.
Originally published on December 17, 2020 7:22 am
This is not the year for the college road trip. Instead, it’s been all about clicking through virtual campus tours.
Parker Kopplin is a senior at Ritenour High School in St. Louis County, and that’s where he was when he explored the campus of UCLA.
“It just doesn t feel like a real experience,” Kopplin said. “It kind of just seems like you re reading and talking to a brochure.”
Kopplin instead has listed Mizzou, a school he was able to visit last summer, as his top choice.
McCluer High School senior Aldo Estrada also at one time had dreams of going to college in southern California. But the pandemic has Estrada, who will be the first in his family to attend college, wanting to stay closer to home.