Hundreds of MPS employees receive first COVID-19 vaccine
Hundreds of MPS employees receive first COVID-19 vaccine By Bryan Henry | February 25, 2021 at 5:18 PM CST - Updated February 25 at 6:38 PM
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WSFA) - Thursday was the day set aside for hundreds of Montgomery Public Schools employees to get their first COVID-19 vaccine shot at Alabama State University.
The engine behind inoculation project for MPS personnel was Joyce Loyd-Davis. In charge and in command of a large team delivering one shot after another, it was an “assembly-line” like production.
“We’ll check your temperature,” one nurse said to an employee.
Months of training and dry runs rolled to near perfection.
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MONTGOMERY, Ala., Feb. 1, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Montgomery Education Foundation(MEF) is ramping up efforts toward the public charter school conversion of Davis Elementary with the help of
Phalen Leadership Academies (PLA), one of the largest African-American led and operated school turnaround networks in the nation.
Davis Elementary will be converted into a public charter school this fall. The school will remain under
Montgomery Public Schools (MPS) and all students zoned for Davis will have guaranteed enrollment. Parents should expect to see enhanced curriculum, dedicated teachers, integrated technology, and a road map to improve student achievement. Transportation, food service and building custodians remain the same through MPS.The work will begin with Davis Elementary School next school year. Nixon Elementary
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Montgomery Public Schools Superintendent Dr. Ann Roy Moore and members of the Montgomery County school board have sent a letter to Gov. Kay Ivey and State Health Officer Dr. Scott Harris asking that they make the COVID-19 vaccine a priority for MPS employees.
The school system is going all-virtual starting Monday. That decision was made after several employees died of COVID-19 related causes. The school system had allowed families to choose in-person or virtual learning as of January 11.
Moore said that she expected the school system to remain all-virtual until the vaccine became widely given to MPS employees.