Print article All Lake Otis Elementary School students have moved to online classes after the Anchorage School District confirmed “several cases of COVID-19 at the school involving multiple students and staff” last week, according to the district. This is the first instance of an entire school moving completely online for 10 days, said Anchorage School District spokeswoman Lisa Miller. A number of individual classrooms in the district have moved online after the reopening, but not whole schools. Since returning to in-person classes, “there has been roughly 2-5 classes transitioned to online learning at any given time due to COVID-19,” Miller said in an email.
Update, Jan. 14:
The Anchorage School District will offer testing at Tyson Elementary instead of Fairview Elementary as one of its five walk-up COVID-19 testing sites that offer results in 24 hours for staff and students. The Anchorage School District is standing up COVID-19 testing sites in partnership with the Anchorage Health Department. There will be pop-up testing in parking lots at 11 schools on a scheduled basis. The testing is free and for the general public. It will be offered from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. at the following locations on the following days: • Jan. 8, Abbott Loop Elementary School • Jan. 9, North Star Elementary School