SUSAN JOHNS Wed, 05/12/2021 - 8:30am
Is regularly pool-testing students and adults for COVID–19 doable, and could it help prevent spread? Wiscasset School Committee listened and asked questions Tuesday night, May 11 as staff nurse Marilyn Sprague explained the program she said the state is encouraging. After hearing Sprague’s answers and Wiscasset Middle High School Assistant Principal-Athletic Director Warren Cossette’s support for the idea, the committee gave Sprague the go-ahead.
According to the discussion, if the department went through with the pool testing, it would likely start next fall, the department would first be charged $185 for a waiver involving the lab testing; classes or other pools of students and adults would, unless they opt out, take nasal samples with swabs that would then go to Boston for testing, the department would have results within 24 hours, and any positives would mean more testing to find who it was. Pool testing aims to detect a cas
SARAH WHITFIELD, News Contributor
Wiscasset Superintendent of Schools Terry Wood addresses the school committee. Zoom screenshot
Wiscasset Middle High School is ranked 13
th in the 2021 U.S. News & World Report high school rankings for Maine, Superintendent of Schools Terry Wood announced at the March 9 school committee meeting. Wood said she looked through the rankings for the past three years and that “13
th is good, but it would be great to be 12
th, 11
th, or 10
th and one of the goals I want to focus on is how we can move up higher.”
The rankings are based on factors including math and reading performance and proficiency, college-level curriculum and graduation rate. Morse High School in Bath ranked 17
SARAH WHITFIELD, News Contributor Wed, 01/13/2021 - 1:30pm
Wiscasset School Department staff are working hard to bring back as many students in-person as possible, Superintendent Terry Wood reported at the Tuesday, Jan. 12 Zoom school committee meeting.
Wednesdays will still be virtual learning so the buildings can be thoroughly cleaned but more and more students will be attending four days a week if they choose to. Wood noted Wiscasset Elementary School is fully ready for higher numbers and second, fourth and fifth graders began to come back in greater numbers the week of Jan. 11, while kindergartners and first and third graders were set return four days a week starting the week of Jan. 18. Wood said 27 students at WES were still fully remote, but that number is changing every day.