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At Tuesday’s Leon County Faculty Board assembly, the Board authorized the Leon County Colleges 2020-2021 Reopening Plan and voted to push again the primary day of faculty to August 31.

Superintendent Rocky Hanna outlined the finalized reopening plan, which incorporates implementing social distancing measures, requiring face coverings, and growing sanitation. Earlier this month, dad and mom have been in a position to select between brick-and-mortar or distance studying for his or her college students.

Beforehand, the Board had deliberate to present Chromebooks to each scholar within the district after voting to approve an $11 million one-to-one system plan. Hanna stated the Chromebooks now doubtless is not going to arrive by the primary day of faculty.

“We realized final week that there’s a sturdy likelihood that our units—it’s 32,500 units—is not going to arrive by the primary day of faculty,” Hanna stated. “So, what now we have carried out is now we have gone to different distributors and have secured 6500 units, practically 7000 units, from one other vendor.”

Hanna stated the units are coming from one other nation and there are delays.

“We’re planning as if these 32,500 units is not going to be right here for the primary day of faculty,” Hanna stated. “And now we have plan. We will likely be asking our dad and mom and lecturers like we did final yr that these college students which have units, we’re going to ask them to use that system, after which we’ll complement with these different 7000 that we’re buying which might be on home soil together with the opposite roughly 11,000 now we have in our provide in our present stock.”

Hanna stated the district will attain out to college students attending the digital academies first to give units to those that want them. Then, college students studying in particular person will obtain units in the event that they want them.

“We’re upset, however everybody within the nation is lined up for units,” Hanna stated.

Later within the assembly, the Board mentioned the 2020-2021 calendar and unanimously voted to delay the primary day of faculty to August 31.

Superintendent Rocky Hanna had beforehand beneficial pushing again the primary day of faculty from August 19 to August 24. The Board voted to delay it additional to August 31, which Hanna stated will doubtless push the tip date of the second semester into June 2021.

Faculty Board member Ava Striplin, who made the movement, famous that August 31 is the newest faculties can reopen below Florida Schooling Commissioner Richard Corcoran’s emergency order.

Striplin stated delaying the beginning date is not going to shift the trainer return date and that lecturers will nonetheless return on August 10 and have three weeks to put together for college kids. She stated the varsity board is not going to regulate the beginning date once more except it’s government-mandated.

Board Chair Dee Dee Rasmussen commented on the delay, saying the Faculty Board has made an effort to accommodate college students, dad and mom, and college.

“We’ve preserved the brick-and-mortar choice for many who select that,” Rasmussen stated. “We’ve supplied the digital academy for many who need to college from house however with construction. And we’ve supplied the Leon digital college for many who need extra flexibility from house.”

Rasmussen stated she thinks the district has accommodated most college students, however she is fearful that delaying the beginning date may negatively impression some college students, particularly these experiencing abuse or psychological well being points.

“I’m simply hoping and praying that only a few extra days gained’t so adversely impression them and that understanding that college goes to begin…that hope will carry them and get them to the place they want to be, too,” she stated.

On the finish of the assembly, the Faculty Board unanimously authorized sending the finalized reopening plan to the Division of Schooling.

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