Dubuque Schools opt for online learning days over snow days for remainder of school year
DUBUQUE, Iowa (KWWL) With the last day of school currently scheduled for June 4, the Dubuque Community School District is making plans to not extend that further into the summer.
The district is opting to go with virtual learning days rather than snow days for the remainder of the school year. The virtual learning day will count as a school day and participation is expected.
Superintendent Stan Rheingans says extending the the school year any later into June will create significant community impact including summer programming by community partners, staff taking additional courses at area colleges, planned vacations, and more.
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Public school teacher Kelly Mrozik holds in-person class for first graders in Wasilla, Alaska. She is required to wear a mask. Her students are not.
One week from Monday, all Iowa school districts will once again offer the option of fully in-person instruction, under a new mandate signed into law by Gov. Kim Reynolds, mandating that schools give parents the choice of face-to-face teaching, even as the state lags behind much of the rest of the nation in vaccinating its residents.
Someschools have been offering the option of face-to-face teaching throughout the pandemic, while others have had families choose between a fully online experience and a hybrid one. Still, some of the state’s largest districts haven’t offered fully in-person instruction since last March. Next week, that will change.
More than two dozen parents and school staff on Monday made their case to Dubuque Community School Board members as to when students should return to .
Dubuque Community Schools leaders plan to publicly discuss how and when to return students to full-time, in-person learning. School board members will discuss the matter during their meeting on Monday. Superintendent Stan Rheingans indicated in a message to families that, while board members “may or may not” take action at that meeting, “it is important that the conversation occurs.” Rheingans says plans are in the works that would allow officials to bring students back to school full time with a couple of weeks of notice.