coronavirus in connecticut schools

The Department of Public Health commissioner Tuesday outlined guidelines for masking and COVID testing for students returning to class in the fall.

The state of Connecticut released new data showing weekly COVID-19 cases at each school in the state. According to the data, some schools are even seeing more than a dozen new COVID-19 cases per week. Others are seeing close to none. The following data shows new cases reported between Thursday and Wednesday. You can search for schools in your town…

On Wednesday, the state’s COVID-19 test positivity rate jumped into the teens and hospitalizations are also on the rise.

The state Department of Public Health is warning school administrators to expect more COVID-19 cases affecting students and staff in the upcoming weeks amid increasing transmission.

State officials are warning school administrators to expect more COVID-19 cases affecting students and staff in the upcoming weeks amid increasing transmission. In a message to school leaders, the departments of Education and Public Health said COVID-19 transmission rate increases throughout Connecticut and surrounding states might be partly driven by holidays, school breaks and travel. On Friday, the state’s rolling...

The statewide face mask requirement for all Connecticut schools and childcare centers is over, it ended on Feb. 28, and local school districts are making the determination on whether to require masks. With face masks now being optional in some school districts, school leaders are urging students to be respectful and kind of other students’ choices. Here is a look…

Starting Monday, the Lamont administration is lifting the statewide mandate with COVID-19 vaccines, treatments and at-home testing available, along with drops in cases and hospitalizations.

Changes are ahead for students in Preston schools come the beginning of next month. The school district said the board voted unanimously on Monday to make wearing face masks optional for staff and students, beginning on Tuesday, March 1.  However, the district will continue to recommend face masks for staff and students and they plan to integrate recommendations from the Department…

Face masks will be optional for staff and students at Preston schools, starting on Tuesday, March 1. They will still be required on buses.

Teachers in Windsor took a stand for the future of their district’s pandemic protocol. Teachers rallied while holding signs and wearing all black to represent the need for more safety measures.

Some Connecticut teachers wore black and others wore red Wednesday, representing how teachers believe schools should move forward with the COVID-19 pandemic. Both groups, however, agree the best place for students is in a classroom at school. The Connecticut Education Association is among several groups asking for teachers to wear black in a call for more safety measures to keep…

Some Connecticut teachers will be wearing black and some will be wearing red Wednesday, representing how teachers believe schools should move forward with the COVID-19 pandemic.

Some Connecticut teachers will be wearing black and some will be wearing red on Wednesday.

Principals, superintendents and counselors are filling in as substitutes in classrooms as the surge in coronavirus infections further strains schools that already had been struggling with staffing shortages. In Cincinnati, dozens of employees from the central office were dispatched this week to schools that were at risk of having to close because of low staffing. The superintendent of Boston schools,…

Middletown High School is dismissing early Thursday because of staffing shortages due to COVID-19. A message on the school district’s website says the high school will dismiss at 11 a.m. COVID-19-related staffing issues have impacted schools in Ansonia as well. Ansonia Public Schools opened Monday after winter break but closed for the rest of the week because of staffing...

State leaders discussed the updated return-to-school COVID-19 protocols Tuesday, They did so in a virtual meeting, which has some parents asking, “Why can’t our kids learn virtually too?” With COVID cases soaring, Heather Duguay, a Middletown mother of two, has kept her kids home from school the past two days and she says the school has given her grief...

The state has changed some COVID-19 guidelines when it comes to kids in school, but not all parents are happy with those changes.

Hamden High School is closed Tuesday because of staffing shortages connected to COVID-19 cases and exposures, according to the school district’s website. Hamden High School is not the only school affected by COVID-19. Ansonia Public Schools officials said Monday that they will be closed for the rest of the week because of staffing issues due to COVID-19 and those...

Ansonia Public Schools are closed for the rest of the week because of staffing issues due to COVID-19 and added the days to the end of the school year.