Holland High to return to in-person learning Monday, schools update COVID data hollandsentinel.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from hollandsentinel.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Holland schools requests $74M bond on May 4 ballot to renovate elementary schools, improve tech
Updated Apr 14, 2021;
Posted Apr 14, 2021
Jefferson Elementary School, pictured in this MLive file photo, would see $6 million in renovations through a $74 million bond proposal that Holland Public Schools is requesting on the May 4 ballot. (MLive file photo)
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HOLLAND, MI – When Holland Public Schools identified $140 million of school renovations in the district’s 2009 master plan, Superintendent Brian Davis couldn’t imagine asking taxpayers to pay for it all amid the ongoing recession.
So the district cut that amount in half, instead only asking taxpayers for $73 million to fund the most immediate needs, which was paid for through a bond proposal approved by voters in the May 2010 election.
Local schools see rising COVID cases amid recent surge
Amid the surge in COVID-19 cases in Michigan, local schools have seen a rise in active COVID-19 cases throughout recent weeks, leading up to spring break this week.
Case rates in the state have risen to the point of Gov. Gretchen Whitmer urging but not ordering Michigan school districts to shift to remote learning in high schools for the two weeks following spring break.
Districts began announcing plans to adhere to the recommendation Friday afternoon. Holland and Grand Haven schools had announced a shift to remote learning at the recommendation of the Ottawa County Department of Public Health as of 3:30 p.m. Friday.
As COVID-19 cases continue to climb in Michigan, four local school buildings were added to this week’s School-Related Outbreak Report from the state. The schools were among seven in Ottawa County and 83 around the state added to the report.
Holland High School, Zeeland West High School and West Ottawa’s Harbor Lights and Macatawa Bay Middle Schools were all added to the report. The schools each had two cases related to their outbreaks except for Zeeland West, which had seven.
Last week, Holland and Zeeland both went remote for Wednesday and Thursday at the high school level along with middle school at ZPS in response to elevated cases and quarantines.
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