The Park City Board of Education did not include a public comment item on its May meeting agenda. The board is now one of the only elected bodies not to have a standing invitation for residents to voice concerns to officials, though the board president said it will return.
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Months before the Park City Board of Education is expected to ask voters for tens of millions of dollars for school improvements, the board scrapped the public comment portion of its May meeting, and has not committed to a timeframe for restoring the long-standing opportunity for residents to provide input.
Gov. Spencer Cox announced on Thursday that the state s mask mandate in schools would end for the last week of classes. Park City School District officials strongly recommended that students continue to wear masks. South Summit officials anticipated they would not require masks for the final week.
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Gov. Spencer Cox on Thursday announced that he will rescind the mask mandate in schools for the last week students are in class, allowing local districts to decide whether to continue to require face coverings as the school year comes to an end.
The mandate would lift starting the first day of the final week of school, which differs among districts. That would be Monday, May 28, for the North Summit and South Summit school districts and Tuesday, June 1, in Park City.
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Inside Park City High School, officials tested 900 students on Monday, while in the parking lot outside, TestUtah staffers ran a free community testing clinic. The “Test to Stay” program aims to keep schools open even as the district weathers the largest outbreak yet.
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Park City’s secondary students returned to school on Monday after nearly two weeks of remote learning, but as per usual during the pandemic, it was far from a typical school day.
Throughout the morning, the district summoned 900 students from Treasure Mountain Junior High School and Park City High School to the high school gym for rapid COVID-19 antigen tests on the first day of what officials call the “Test to Stay” program.