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COVID-19 outbreaks reported at Brunswick, Bath schools
COVID-19 outbreaks have been reported at Bath Middle School and Harriet Beecher Stowe Elementary School in Brunswick.
The Maine Center for Disease Control defines an outbreak as three or more cases of COVID-19 within a 14-day period.
Regional School Unit 1 Superintendent Patrick Manuel announced the outbreak status in Bath Monday afternoon.
“These cases are not epidemiologically linked,” Manuel wrote in an email to the community. “The CDC has informed us that this uptick in cases is due to community spread outside of school. There is no evidence of spread within the school building; therefore, the school will remain open to in-person learning.”
Brunswick foundation helps teachers respond to pandemic with mini-grants
This school year the Brunswick Community Education Foundation provided smaller grants to more teachers and with more frequency.
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The Brunswick Community Education Foundation decided to offer emergency mini-grants to Brunswick school teachers this school year, helping them find new and safe ways to teach students during a pandemic.
The donation-based foundation offers grant applications once a year but board member Susan Olcott said the board agreed to offer four rounds this year. The organization just finished its third round of applications this school year.
“At the very beginning of the pandemic, there was obviously an immediate need for technology that came from talking to people in the district and superintendent’s office,” Olcott, a member of the Brunswick foundation’s board. “We were able to raise a bunch of money and purchase 50 laptops just in the thick of things and following that,
Maine CDC: Brunswick elementary school has COVID outbreak
“It does not mean that there has been any transmission within schools; more likely, transmission has occurred within the community,” according to a letter from the superintendent.
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BRUNSWICK The Maine Center for Disease Control on Tuesday classified Harriet Beecher Stowe Elementary School under outbreak status due to the volume of COVID-19 cases, according to a statement from the superintendent.
“This is a determination that simply means that there has been a certain number of COVID-19 cases within a period of time within a school,” Superintendent Phillip Potenziano wrote. “It does not mean that there has been any transmission within schools; more likely, transmission has occurred within the community.”
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