Figures from the Thurgood Marshall plaza on Lawyer s Mall across from the State House. MarylandReporter.com photo
STATE TO ROLL OUT MASS VACCINE SITES: To speed up and increase the efficiency of the state’s rollout of its supply of coronavirus vaccines, “mass vaccination sites” will be set up throughout Maryland, Gov. Larry Hogan said Tuesday. Bryan Renbaum of Maryland Reporter is reporting that Hogan said that the “hundreds” of the state’s guard members who had been deployed to Washington, D.C., to assist with security for last week’s inauguration ceremony for President Joe Biden will be “immediately” redeployed back to Maryland to help “plan, build, and launch” the vaccination sites.
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12. School officials caution that two days a week of in-person learning may be reduced to one day a week if there are too many students returning and there is not enough space to keep with social distancing guidelines.
Parents can still opt to keep their children in all virtual learning. Read more from the Howard County Public School system.
January 26th, 2021
At its work session January 26, 2021, the Howard County Board of Education approved a phased-in hybrid model for students to return to school in person. The approved model will bring students back to in-person instruction over the course of four phases beginning March 1, 2021. All students will have the option to continue receiving fully virtual instruction.
Howard County, Maryland, school officials approved a phased hybrid model for the incremental return of students to in-person learning this March.
The Howard County Board of Education on Tuesday voted to approve a model that will have public school students return to classrooms over four distinct phases starting March 1, with fully virtual instruction remaining an option for those preferring it.
For parents or guardians who choose to participate in the model, the newly-approved phases are:
Week of March 1: Students identified for a program that will provide in-person instruction up to five days per week, including special education or additional learning services.
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For most of the coronavirus pandemic, Howard County’s metrics have been better than the statewide numbers, sometimes even by a considerable amount. However, the county’s numbers are now only slightly better than the state.