Posted by Robert Woolsey, KCAW | Dec 21, 2020
Sitka High ESL teacher Betty Richter’s technical writing class demonstrates social distancing technique. Although schools are an easy place to spread disease, the district says tough mitigation measures have resulted in no detectable spread of COVID-19 in schools. “The 10 or 11 times we’ve had a positive case at a building where people were in person,” said special education director Chris Voron, “we followed a mitigation plan and there’s been no documented transmission that public health can detect in our contact tracing.” (SHS photo)
Sitka’s schools are on holiday break, and whether they reopen for in-person learning on January 4 remains a question mark.