Also, Florida's high school athletics association voted -- against the advice of its medical advisory panel -- to start fall sports later in August.
On a phone call with school district superintendents late last week, Education Commissioner Richard Corcoran urged them to be “surgical” when dealing with covid-19 cases, as opposed to “sweeping” — and told them not to close a school without calling state officials first to discuss it.
A Florida school district wanted to wait to reopen school buildings. Gov. Ron DeSantis threatened to cut its funding. “Before you get to that point of closing a classroom or closing a school, we want to have that communication with you because we want to be as surgical as possible,” Corcoran said, offering to provide specific names and numbers of officials who could take a call.There is no reason, he said, to automatically close a school just because a student displays symptoms of covid-19 but has not been diagnosed.
But one district leader, who was on the call with Corcoran and who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of fear of reprisal from the state, said some district leaders would now be reluctant to unilaterally shut down a school and send all students home for remote learning.Meanwhile, the board of directors of the Florida High School Athletic Association voted late last week to allow schools to start fall sports Aug.
(DeSantis, in an address on school reopenings, then expanded on Gaylord’s comment, saying, “Just as the SEALs surmounted obstacles to bring Osama bin Laden to justice, so, too, would the Martin County school system find a way to provide parents with a meaningful choice of in-person instruction or continued distance learning,” according to a transcript
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