Checklist for Teachers and Parents

Teachers: Get Your School ready for Coronarvirus

You can protect yourself and your students by practicing and promoting healthy habits during the school year. Use this checklist to plan and take action if a COVID-19 outbreak occurs in your community.  Click here for more

As the Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak spreads throughout the United States and schools around the country are forced to close, district leaders are faced with a wide range of challenges, including how to transition to online teaching and learning, how to manage food distribution, how to find work for non-teacher employees during school closures, and of course, how to keep students and staff safe and healthy. 

President Trump has been quick to overrule Dr. Anthony Fauci telling senators that there’s "no easy answer on whether schools can reopen this fall." Speaking to the governors of Colorado and North Dakota at the White House, the President said Fauci, the nation's top infectious disease expert, did not give an “acceptable answer” to the Senate committee hearing in which he offered a much starker outlook on the coronavirus than that offered by Trump himself. “I think you should absolutely open the schools. I don’t consider our country coming back if the schools are closed," the president asserted. The President’s comments came as health officials in New York were investigating more than 100 cases of a rare and dangerous inflammatory syndrome that afflicts children and appears to be connected to the virus.