Middletown is one of 10 districts in the country participating in a three-year pilot STEM summer camp, but they hope to run the program for years after.
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“Our students have been through a lot,” said Emily Rizzo, a spokeswoman for the mayor. “Why not offer them an engaging experience rather than something they have to do?”
Pawtucket has already vaccinated 650 students between the ages of 16 and 18. The state s goal is for them to vaccinate 1,700 more students in that age group.
High schools across Rhode Island have scheduled vaccination clinics for their students over the age of 16; the first one was Monday at Cranston High School East. Gov. Dan McKee said last week that his administration would work with any high school that wants to host a vaccination clinic for students.
Massachusetts saw its K-12 enrollment fall by nearly 3%, or 28,000 students, according to Chalkbeat. Almost half of those students wound up being home-schooled or switching to private schools, but about 7,000 students remained unaccounted for, state officials told Chalkbeat.
The biggest worry is that some students simply gave up and dropped out, although those numbers are harder to track.
In Rhode Island, as school-reopening plans changed over the summer, many parents opted to homeschool their children. Others chose not to send their children to preschool or kindergarten at all.
State Education Commissioner Angélica Infante-Green said she is working with districts to figure out where these students have gone. The good news, she said, is that Rhode Island has “lost” fewer children than most other New England states.