Portland s coronavirus positivity rate plummets
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The Arrigoni Bridge spans the Connecticut River, joining the town of Portland with the city of Middletown. Here, motorists exit the bridge heading toward Portland.Cassandra Day / Hearst Connecticut Media
PORTLAND Eleven months into the coronavirus pandemic, Superintendent of Schools Charles E. Britton finally was able to report some good news about the virus.
The town’s positivity rate for infections has plummeted over the past weeks, Britton told the Board of Education.
On Jan. 14, coming out of the end-of-the-year holiday celebrations, the coronavirus positivity rate was 70 cases per 100,000 people.
Portland Superintendent of Schools Charles BrittonJeff Mill / Hearst Connecticut Media file
Portland schools to use some fed funding to continue remote learning
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The district has received a $312,000 grant as part of a federally funded coronavirus relief package.
Approximately 200 students this academic year have chosen to opt out of in-person learning, Superintendent of Schools Charles E. Britton said Tuesday.
“This year, students have been allowed to opt-out for whatever reason,” Britton said. In most instances, they did so because no vaccine has as yet been approved for children, and in particular for “children with other ailments,” Britton said.
Portland Superintendent of Schools Charles BrittonJeff Mill / Hearst Connecticut Media file
Britton said that with so many students opting out of in-school learning, the district was compelled to, in effect, “create two parallel school systems.”
K-6 students to return to classrooms Jan. 19
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PORTLAND Students in kindergarten through sixth grade will return to schools in person beginning Jan.19, officials said.
Middle and high school students will operate under a hybrid model beginning Jan. 19, alternating between in-person and remote learning, and will transition to full in-school learning Feb. 1, the Board of Education decided during a special meeting Thursday evening.
The board acted on a revised recommendation from Superintendent of Schools Charles E. Britton and after speaking with Russell Melmed, health director of the Chatham Health District.
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