March 5, 2021
DORCHESTER CO., Md. With virtual learning becoming a new normal for many school districts, they now run into attacks outside of coronavirus, computer virus attacks that is. Dorchester County Public Schools recently had a run-in with malware attacks that could’ve impacted more than 5,500 DCPS devices.
DCPS superintendent, W. David Bromwell tells us he was his school district target out of all school systems. According to I.T. officials, they told him quote, ” it’s almost like the people that do these types of attacks take a dart and just throw it at a board and wherever it hits, where gonna go after that.”
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January 15, 2021
DORCHESTER CO., Md. – Dorchester County Public Schools Superintendent released an update on Friday regarding the reopening of schools.
W. David Bromwell says he and other school officials are concerned about students not being in school and have reconvened with their re-opening committee chairs to come up with a slight shift to allow every student who wishes to go to school be able to see their teacher in person at least one day per week. We’re told the plan also allows for the D group to return four days a week.
Dorchester County Public Schools are aiming to have approximately 25% of each schools’ population in school from Tuesday through Friday, with Mondays remaining asynchronous.
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January 13, 2021
DORCHESTER CO., Md. – Dorchester County Public Schools Superintendent W. David Bromwell says the district will remain all virtual until at least Monday, February 1st.
This is due to the current county positivity rate of 11.6% and case rate of 90.4 per 100,000.
In a statement, Bromwell says “Your frustration with this situation is shared by me as well as all of us at Dorchester County Public Schools. We want nothing more than to be able to start bringing students back into our buildings safely. Anticipating this day, the Executive Team and I have been working on a new plan to ensure as many of our students are able to receive some amount of in-person instruction as soon as it is safely possible.”
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December 9, 2020
DORCHESTER CO, Md. – Dorchester County Public School officials have announced that schools will remain at their present status next week, December 14th through 18th.
We’re told the small groups now in school buildings will continue attending in-person, but the district will not be moving to Phase 1.5 at this time.
Over the past week, the county’s testing positivity rate has hovered around 5%, with some days under that benchmark and some days over.
Superintendent W. David Bromwell says that if numbers were to drastically change in a positive or negative direction, he will act in the best interest of the community, students, and staff to keep everyone safe.