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Alpena-Montmorency-Alcona Educational Service District Superintendent Scott Reynolds on Monday talks about the COVID-19 rapid tests the district received at its central office location in Alpena.
ALPENA The Alpena-Montmorency-Alcona Educational Service District Board of Education will make COVID-19 rapid testing available to its employees and serve as a hub to receive and distribute rapid tests to student athletes.
The board recently authorized Superintendent Scott Reynolds to sign an agreement with the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services to participate in the voluntary testing program.
Reynolds said the AMA ESD received nearly 1,000 rapid testing kits and has already distributed 80 of those kits to Alpena Public Schools and 40 to Alcona Community Schools to test students in their wrestling programs.
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Ella White Elementary School crossing guard Jennifer Huotari helps a family cross the intersection near 3rd Avenue and Ripley Boulevard on Thursday.
ALPENA Alpena Public Schools administrators recommend the district’s Board of Education stop emergency COVID-19-related sick leave to the district’s employees.
Federal coronavirus relief measures initially mandated employers to provide paid sick leave for absences related to the virus. When that mandate expired at the end of the year, Congress allowed employers to continue the sick leave through March 31, but employers would have to pay for the leave themselves.