The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has also said it will issue updated guidance for schools in the coming weeks to help with planning for the fall. TOLEDO, Ohio Wednesday marked the first day back to class for many students within Toledo Public Schools, but uncertainty looms as the delta variant sparks surges of COVID-19. Sharisa Vaval, a community health worker navigators supervisor with Community Assistance Programs, found out her son couldnt attend Morgan Park High School for two weeks last spring when he was blocked from completing the schools online health screening. LIST | Links mentioned on air during WTOL 11 broadcasts, Southeast Michigan morning roads may have leftover, slick conditions | WTOL 11 Weather, 'It's time to brace for impact' | Local health officials warn of crowded hospitals, children becoming ill from COVID, Redistricting: Ohio education funding hangs in balance with unbalanced districts, Mask or no mask? Im not going to kick a kid off campus if they show up without a mask.. Require an increase in schoolwide cleaning and disinfection. California requires schools to enforce a mask mandate, and offer independent-study options, including virtual learning, for those students who cant or wont mask. District Administration. With the Delta variant capable of racing through populations and causing infections even among the vaccinated, the terrain is more daunting than ever. In New York City, the Department of Education has closed859 classrooms, quadruple the number of a month ago, and another nearly 2,500 were partially closed as newly reported Covid-19 infectionsrose sharply in the city. Students in Mendota, Illinois, began their break on Dec. 17 instead of this week. Only about 22% of district students attended in-person classes during a week in April for which CPS provided data. I am deeply concerned especially that the delta variant is having an increasingly serious medical impact on younger people, not just young children who attend school, but older kids in high school and the young teachers who come to work at schools every day and so were trying simply to ask people to make sure that people are following a mitigation that we know works.. if(document.getElementsByClassName("reference").length==0) if(document.getElementById('Footnotes')!==null) document.getElementById('Footnotes').parentNode.style.display = 'none'; Ballotpedia features 395,577 encyclopedic articles written and curated by our professional staff of editors, writers, and researchers. !function(){"use strict";window.addEventListener("message",(function(e){if(void 0!==e.data["datawrapper-height"]){var t=document.querySelectorAll("iframe");for(var a in e.data["datawrapper-height"])for(var r=0;r