Newport-based schools increasing in-person learning, Waterville schools report COVID-19 case
Middle and high school students in Regional School Unit 19 will begin in-person learning four days per week beginning in the next two weeks.
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Newport-based Regional School Unit 19 announced Monday that it will welcome back middle and high school students for increased in-person learning later this month.
In a letter to the community, RSU 19 Superintendent Michael Hammer outlined the plan to bring middle and high school students back to four days per week of in-person learning.
“We are planning to have the students return to in-person learning four days a week in the middle/high school,” Hammer wrote. “Based on the responses to our survey, we believe that we can bring those students, who indicated the desire, back safely for a pilot period.”
Waterville, Newport, Oakland, Skowhegan, Unity schools report COVID-19 cases
The five school districts enroll students from 31 towns in central Maine and reported a total of seven cases.
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A handful of central Maine school districts reported positive cases of the coronavirus over the weekend, including districts based in Newport, Oakland, Skowhegan, Waterville and Unity.
MAINE SCHOOL ADMINISTRATIVE DISTRICT 54
MSAD 54 Superintendent Jon Moody wrote in a letter to the community Sunday that a Canaan Elementary School student tested positive. Five staff members and 10 students were required to quarantine due to exposure.
Skowhegan-based MSAD 54 also reported a case at Skowhegan Area High School on Friday in which a student tested positive. One staff member and a “small group of students” were required to quarantine.