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Mineral County Board members express frustration with back-to-school directive
Mineral Daily News-Tribune
Tribune Managing Editor
KEYSER - Mineral County Board of Education members expressed their frustration with the state board of education Tuesday, saying they still don’t agree that the time was right to return their students and teachers to in-person learning.
After Gov. Jim Justice made the surprise announcement Dec. 30 that students would be returning to class beginning Jan. 19 regardless of their county’s color on the West Virginia DHHR COVID map, the Mineral County board members agreed at their Jan. 5 meeting to make the decision locally on a week-to-week basis.
Tribune Managing Editor
KEYSER- Mineral County Schools employees are being sent an email with a form to fill out indicating whether they intend to take the COVID-19 vaccine when it arrives in the county.
Superintendent of schools Troy Ravenscroft, himself quarantined at home this week after testing positive, said during the board of education meeting held by Zoom Tuesday that the West Virginia Department of Education “needs to know how many vials of vaccine to send to each district.”
Ravenscroft said the vaccine “could be available as soon as the end of this month.”
Ravenscroft also told the board members that he continues to work on the county’s re-entry plan so they can be ready to get kids back in school once it is safe.