718 students, 94 staff members at Massachusetts schools positive for COVID in 2-week period that includes break
Updated Apr 29, 2021;
A total of 812 new cases of COVID-19 have been reported in Massachusetts schools during a two-week period that includes April break, education officials said Thursday.
From April 15 to April 28, public schools reported 718 students and 94 staff members were positive for the coronavirus, according to data from the state Department of Elementary and Secondary Education. Those figures include students and staffers who tested positive within seven days of being in a school building.
Those positives included 711 students and 85 staffers at local school districts, 3 students and 5 staffers at education collaboratives, and 4 students and 4 staffers at approved special education schools.
Landmark School InvenTeam wins Lemelson Grant
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A group of nine students from Landmark School in Beverly is among 13 teams nationwide awarded this year’s Lemelson-MIT InvenTeams grant to invent solutions to solve real-world problems.
This is the third time that Landmark’s team has received this grant.
The Landmark initiative is a near-shore marine data survey collector in the form of a fixed buoy placed off the coast adjacent to the Landmark High School campus in Prides Crossing. The device will collect air temperature, barometric pressure, water salinity, windspeed, water temperature and acidity and turbidity at the water surface, 10 feet down and on the ocean floor.
Landmark School students awarded Lemelson-MIT InvenTeams grant
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A group of nine students from Landmark School in Beverly is among 13 teams nationwide awarded this year’s Lemelson-MIT InvenTeams grant to invent solutions to solve real-world problems.
This is the third time that Landmark’s team has received this grant. The team includes two North Andover students and an Andover student.
The Landmark initiative is a near-shore marine data survey collector in the form of a fixed buoy placed off the coast adjacent to the Landmark High School campus in Prides Crossing. The device will collect air temperature, barometric pressure, water salinity, windspeed, water temperature and acidity and turbidity at the water surface, 10 feet down, and on the ocean floor.
Massachusetts schools had 476 student and staff COVID cases in past week as educators get green light for vaccines
Updated Mar 04, 2021;
A total of 476 COVID-19 cases, among 343 students and 133 staff members, have been reported by Massachusetts schools to education officials in the past week.
Those cases, identified from Feb. 25 to March 3, include 335 student cases and 127 staff cases at local school districts, five student cases and five staff cases at education collaboratives, and three student cases and one staff case at approved special education schools, according to a weekly report from the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education.
The coronavirus case report from DESE comes out each Thursday and includes cases from students or staff members who tested positive within seven days of being inside a school building.
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