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THE BRIDGEPORT Exempted Village School District and its food service staff are presented with the Children’s Hunger Alliance Child Nutrition Award. Pictured, from left, are Rick Oxley, representing Children’s Hunger Alliance; Bridgeport Exempted Village School District Food Service Director Donna Burlenski; and Bridgeport Exempted Village School District Superintendent Brent Ripley.
BRIDGEPORT When schools across the nation were shut down last spring due to the COVID-19 pandemic, one in five children approximately 529,000, across Ohio were deemed food insecure.
That wasn’t the case in the Bridgeport Exempted Village School District, though. Members of the food service staff and volunteers coordinated meals that families picked up at the school, ensuring that the students had access to food to meet their nutritional needs. And when students returned to their classrooms, whether full time or under a hybrid in-person/rem
CADIZ Two local school districts Harrison Hills and Bridgeport are back in regular session.
After more than a month on a hybrid learning plan, the Harrison Hills City School District returned its students to full-time, in-person instruction Monday.
More than 1,200 students resumed on-site classes five days a week following the board of education’s decision to revise its safety plan. The board voted in favor of the revision during a special meeting Friday evening.
Superintendent Dana Snider said that due to a decrease in the county’s COVID-19 caseload and the benefits of in-person learning, the board revised the school’s original plan. In addition, the district’s teachers are scheduled to begin receiving the coronavirus vaccine early next month as a part of the state’s Phase 1B rollout, she said.