COEUR d’ALENE, Idaho Students at Coeur d’Alene schools will soon be walking the hallways five days a week.
Last Thursday, the Coeur d’Alene school board voted to move students at every grade level to five days of in-person learning.
Supervisor of School Health Services, Nichole Piekarski says school nurses have been critical in tracking and analyzing COVID data during this pandemic.
It’s the summaries from that data provided to the school district that help make the decision to move forward or backward in opening schools.
Coeur d’Alene students will soon be walking the halls five days a week!
Coeur d Alene Public Schools board approves April 5 return date
Schools can decide to do a soft start. The decision means students could return to classrooms after spring break. Author: KREM Staff Updated: 11:48 AM PST February 26, 2021
COEUR D ALENE, Idaho The Coeur d Alene Public Schools Board of Trustees voted on Thursday night to bring students back to in-person learning in April.
Students would return on April 5, after spring break. The board also recommended that schools in the district should decide if they want to have soft starts when students come back, as well as recommending late starts on Wednesday.
Superintendent Steven Cook had previously recommended a start date of March 3, but that was pushed back to April 5 to allow teachers and staff to have time to prepare. Masks will be required as per the Panhandle Health District s mandate, but the board said it will coordinate with the health district about if it is safe to not have m
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accinate teachers. It s become a rallying cry uniting parents and celebrities, Democrats and Republicans. As the COVID-19 pandemic continues, and many schools are nearing the one-year mark of closing to in-person instruction, there s seemingly universal support for vaccinating educators as soon as possible so schools can be open safely. So why hasn t Washington and Gov. Jay Inslee prioritized COVID-19 vaccines for teachers yet? Inslee says it comes down to a lack of supply. We would all like to be vaccinated today, Inslee said in a press conference last week. We are going to be vaccinating teachers. We re already vaccinating teachers over 65 and those over 50 in multigenerational housing. There isn t enough to go around for everybody not of age right now.
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January 21, 2021 3:46 PM Kaitlin Knapp
COEUR D’ALENE, Idaho Voters will soon have to chance to vote either yes or no on a Coeur d’Alene Public Schools levy, which funds 25% of the district’s budget.
The levy funds staff members such as nurses, counselors, school resource officers and more. It also provides money for new buses, classroom supplies and extracurricular activities.
A levy is put on the ballot every two years. This levy will contribute about $20 million a year to the district.
So what would you pay? First, the district expects tax rates to go down. Instead of $1.79 per $1,000 of taxable assessed value, it’s projected to go down to $1.71. The district states the tax rate is going down because as the community grows, property value goes up.
The Coeur d’Alene School District has announced its plans to bring middle and high school students back for in-person learning four days a week, and says schools aren't "too far off" from students fully returning.