Students, parents protest some District 11 schools moving to remote learning
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) More than a dozen students, parents and community members protested outside the District 11 administration building Friday, against officials decision to move some schools to remote learning, following an influx of COVID-19 cases.
The district announced at least seven schools have been placed on remote learning, including Palmer High School, Doherty High School, Coronado High School, Swigert Middle School, West Middle School, McAuliffe Elementary School, and Columbia Elementary School. We have seen a pretty sharp increase in our COVID cases in a lot of our schools, Chief Communications Officer Devra Ashby said, What’s happening right now, is a lot of our younger students in our elementary, middle and high schools are turning up with positive cases.