Staff Writer
CEDARVILLE, Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine continues to focus on COVID-19’s impact on schools with the goal of achieving full-time, in-person attendance for students by March 1 with new resources available for school districts.
DeWine began his Tuesday conference with a report from Ohio Department of Education Superintendent Paolo DeMaria outlining the impact of the pandemic on students.
“We know the pandemic has really been disruptive in some ways for all the children,” DeWine said. “In the spring, all Ohio children were out of school. And during this academic year, some kids have been entirely remote, some have been entirely in the classroom and some have been a combination of the two. … It’s been a strain even for the kids who have been totally in the classroom the whole academic year.”
WOODSFIELD Ohio Lt. Gov. Jon Husted announced that the first phase of the Broadband Telehealth Pilot Project in the Switzerland of Ohio School District is
ST. CLAIRSVILLE The heavy snowfall this week is not expected to slow the weekly COVID-19 vaccination process for Belmont County senior citizens. This week
For the News-Register
Bridgeport Exempted Village School District Board of Education President Jerry Moore, right, and Superintendent of Schools Brent Ripley review school facilities in earlier days. School districts in the area have been working to educate students during the coronavirus pandemic and will continue to await vaccinations for staff. The latest information from the governorâs office places Monroe and Harrison countiesâ school districts vaccine schedule in the third week of February, and Belmont and Jefferson countiesâ in the fourth week. (File photo)
By ROBERT A. DEFRANK
For the Sunday News-Register
ST. CLAIRSVILLE Ohio’s school employees have the opportunity to receive COVID-19 vaccinations in February, but local counties are not high on the list.
Jan 2, 2021
Residents of the Switzerland of Ohio Local School District likely breathed a collective sigh of relief last week as a new labor agreement between the district’s teachers and the board of education was finalized.
The news couldn’t have come at a better time. The board and the Switzerland of Ohio Education Association had been negotiating terms of the contract for months. Teachers had continued to work under the terms of the old agreement, which expired in August.
During the negotiations process, which is done privately, the two sides had different assessments of the sticking points that were slowing things down. We will never know details of those disagreements, but what we do know is that representatives of both sides persisted and compromised to reach a solution.