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Health, school officials opening pop-up COVID testing sites as cases surge
Kent Co. Health Dept. and local schools districts are opening five sites at four different locations as COVID cases over the weekend topped 10,000 Videos
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GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. â With COVID cases surging and students traveling for spring break, local health and school officials are planning to open five testing sites beginning this Friday April 9.
âItâs our hope that everybody in the county who has traveled and who fear that they might come in contact with it will pre-register and will get to these drive-thru sites for a quick COVID test before they return to school,â said Kent ISD Superintendent Ron Koehler. âBut, this would include students families, students and staff.â
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Kent ISD reports their decision to suspend the search for a superintendent. The ISD School Board asked the interim Superintendent Ron Koehler to remain until the return to “some sense of normalcy”.
Districts on the hunt for 3,000 missing students
Schools seek to reconnect with families following enrollment losses
All districts – Where did they all go?
That’s what educators across Kent County and statewide have been trying to find out since learning of a dramatic drop in K-12 enrollment this fall – by some 53,000 students across Michigan and 3,000 in Kent ISD public schools.
Local districts large and small have taken hits to their student counts – and their budgets – as pandemic learning scattered families looking for options. Many parents held their children back from kindergarten, decided to home-school them, transferred them to non-public schools or moved out of the area or state. A good many students have simply dropped off the radar – missing in action from their former schools.