The Unalaska school board is considering switching up the district’s calendar and is looking for input from the community. At their meeting Wednesday, board members discussed three different options for future school year schedules, one of which was drafted by member Kerry Mahoney. It pushes the entire school year back and puts the first day of school on Sept. 5, about two to three weeks later than usual.
Unalaska students still must wear masks at school, even while the city is operating at its low COVID-19 risk level and only encouraging masking indoors.The Unalaska school board decided Tuesday that the district will drop to its low transmission level and students can stop wearing masks in school buildings when the city’s COVID-19 case count drops to zero and the Emergency Operations Center advises the change. Previously, the district would only move to its low transmission level after the city had gone two weeks with no community-acquired cases of the virus.
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MARQUETTE TOWNSHIP, MI A pickup truck hit a school bus in Marquette Township Thursday morning, but no students were aboard at the time.
Marquette County Sheriff’s deputies responded around 6 a.m. to County Road 550 near Harlow Lake Road. They say Daniel Russel, 24, of Gwinn was southbound in a Chevy pickup when he fell asleep. He hit a Marquette Area Public Schools bus driven by Joni Scott, 59, of Marquette. The truck then spun on the road and hit a vehicle behind the bus driven by Matthew Taylor, 34, of Marquette.
Russel was taken to UPHS-Marquette for treatment of minor injuries. No one else was reported injured in the crash.
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As the city contends with potential widespread exposure to the coronavirus, Unalaska s schools have begun to determine if and how they will provide in-person learning opportunities to students.
After the city made exceptions to its mandated 10-person gathering limit at a City Council meeting Tuesday, Jan. 12, allowing schools to use up to 50% of classroom occupancy, or 10 people per room, whichever is greater the district began looking to once again revise its Smart Start 2020 plan to allow students back into the building during high risk and hunker down scenarios.
But the school isn t planning to bring students back at 50% capacity, according to Superintendent John Conwell.