Norwalk Mayor Harry Rilling, bottom, hosts a virtual town hall Tuesday to relay information about the COVID-19 vaccine. Translations were available in several languages.
NORWALK, Conn. Logistics, outreach, and handling skepticism among different communities were just a few of the topics addressed at a Tuesday virtual town hall meeting about the COVID-19 vaccine.
Mayor Harry Rilling organized a COVID-19 Vaccination Task Force, aimed at addressing planning and logistics, as well as communications and outreach related to the COVID-19 vaccine and their distribution in Norwalk. The task force includes members from different areas of the community such as: Deanna D’Amore, the city’s health director; Rev. Lindsey Curtis, pastor of Grace Baptist Church; Theresa Argondezzi, health educator in Norwalk; Lamond Daniels, chief of community services, and Brenda Wilcox Williams, chief communications officer for Norwalk Public Schools.
Skip to main content No one s there and it s boring : Just 10% of Norwalk high schoolers attending in-person classes
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Norwalk High School Friday July 10, 2020, in Norwalk, Conn. Norwalk High School has been closed from July 8 through July 13, 2020 due to a summer school staff member testing positive for COVID-19 after being in the building on Monday, July 6.Erik Trautmann / Hearst Connecticut Media
NORWALK The city has close to 3,800 high school students, but only about 400 of them are currently learning in a physical classroom these days.
Though Norwalk emphasized its commitment to keeping schools open for in-person learning even as coronavirus cases rise and classes go remote due to quarantines and staffing shortages, only a small portion of high school students are using the hybrid option that keeps them in the buildings part of the week.
Norwalk schools fined $700 for lack of proper PPE
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A School Safety First teacher caravan is held at Brien McMahon High School in Norwalk, Conn., on Thursday July 29, 2020.Christian Abraham / Hearst Connecticut Media
NORWALK The Norwalk school district was fined $700 by the state Department of Labor for failing to provide proper personal protective equipment to custodians, records show.
The DOL’s Division of Occupational Health and Safety issued the district a citation on Nov. 18 for allowing custodians at Brien McMahon High School to use non-chemical resistant gloves to clean surfaces with cleaning and disinfectant chemicals. Hazard assessments found chemical-resistant gloves were needed in these situations.
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A real challenge : CT school districts struggle with substitute teacher shortage
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A sign sends love out to staff of Middlesex Middle School, thanks to efforts by students and parents Monday afternoon.Jarret Liotta / For Hearst Connecticut Media
Schools going remote and high school graduates filling in for seasoned teachers some may say it’s not the ideal educational scenario, but it’s the one districts are facing.
With COVID-19 making many hesitant to step into a classroom, Connecticut cities and towns are dealing with a substitute shortage that’s resulted in schools going remote from lack of available coverage and the state lowering their requirements to help bring instructors into the classroom.