“At this point, we do not know if it is feasible,” Mashpee School Superintendent Patricia DeBoer said.
While K-3 students in Mashpee already attend school in-person 100% of the time, students in grades 4-12 attend school in a hybrid model that alternates between in-person and remote instruction.
There are many factors that have to be considered before returning students to an in-person schedule five days a week, including whether to stagger their return and how to arrange the spacing of desks, transportation, personnel needs and lunch and recess schedules, DeBoer said.
There’s also concern that spread of the virus and the need for contact tracing will increase if students are spaced closer than 6 feet apart, DeBoer said in an email.
The State Board of Education in California voted unanimously to prepare to apply for more flexible standardized testing options this year as nearly 80% of students across the state continue with distance learning.
States are required to conduct standardized tests every year in math, English language arts and science, according to both state laws and the federal Every Student Succeeds Act. When schools shut their buildings in March last year due to the pandemic, however, state officials said districts did not have to administer the tests, pending getting a waiver from the U.S. Department of Education under then-Secretary Betsy DeVos. The department quickly granted waivers to all states relieving them of their testing obligations.
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