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Will fill top spots at Booth Middle, Whitewater Middle, Minter Elementary, Oak Grove Elementary and Inman Elementary; Lane retires at McIntosh High
Six new principals will take the helm when schools open for the 2021-2022 school year. Five of them have been hired by the Fayette County Board of Education following an extensive search, and they are excited about meeting their new school communities.
Stacie Coppola
Stacie Coppola, former assistant principal at Peachtree City Elementary, currently serving as the school system’s elementary virtual administrator, is the new principal at Sara Harp Minter. She will replace John Gibbas who is taking another job within the school system.
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Total Covid positive test numbers and quarantined persons dropped 42% week over week, the Fayette County School System reported March 6.
Last week’s schools Covid report showed 154 fewer persons either with Covid-19 or quarantined because of exposure to the coronavirus. That total went from 362 sidelined a week ago to 208 as of Friday afternoon, the report showed.
The schools had an even larger drop in number of actual infections: 63% drop from one week to the next, the report shows. The previous week, 52 people 42 students and 10 staff members tested positive for Covid. Last week, that number fell to 19 total 17 students and 2 staff members infected.
Mecklenburg County s most recent community spread numbers.
Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools is scheduled to reopen all schools for in-person classes next week, for the first time since March. Tuesday night the school board will decide whether it’s safe to move ahead.
Parents and teachers on both sides of the issue are impassioned; more than 30 are signed up to speak at the board meeting. And both sides have troubling data to bolster their views.
In early December the CMS board voted to keep all students learning remotely for the first two weeks of class in January. That was to let officials see what community spread of COVID-19 looked like after winter break.
Covid hits McIntosh HS with 30 cases, as 488 sidelined system-wide
McIntosh High School in Peachtree City is the hardest hit by Covid-19 with 30 students having tested positive in the new year, according to a chart released by the Fayette County School System.
On the other hand, no staff at McIntosh tested positive in the same period, making MHS one of only 7 schools out of 24 to have no staff infections the first week of 2021, the chart shows.
Other schools in double figures are Starr’s Mill High with 12 students and 1 staffer and Whitewater Middle with 10 students testing positive.
System-wide, 100 students and 40 staff members tested postive from Jan. 2 through Jan. 8, the chart shows.