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Many Maryland school districts are already planning for fall enrollment, but some are questioning whether students who opted for private or home-schooling during the COVID-19 pandemic will return to public schools.
School officials across the region said they remain upbeat as they continue to see signs of a shift back to the public school classroom.
The enrollment tide is starting to turn in Baltimore County. The district began the school year down almost 4,000 students, but officials said the numbers are starting to pick up. We would anticipate that a lot of those folks would again return to their neighborhood schools, the places where they feel comfortable, the places where their friends are going, Baltimore County Public Schools spokesman Charlie Herndon said.
Baltimore County Council wants school district to plan for summer school, turn over grade data capitalgazette.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from capitalgazette.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Baltimore-area school districts say that most teachers who have requested a COVID-19 vaccine through the district have been inoculated or scheduled an appointment to do so, but that it’s difficult to know how many teachers have yet to receive or don’t want a vaccine.
Baltimore County Executive Johnny Olszewski Jr. is asking the Internal Revenue Service to extend the filing deadline for county school employees due to reporting errors in financial data that teachers worry have led to mistakes on their tax forms.