The members of the Jefferson County Board of Education plan to officially vote Thursday for students to begin the upcoming school year at home.
Six of the seven board members said they will vote for school to begin on an NTI plan at home.
Here are exclusive details from the Courier-Journal:
“None of us want to be in that situation where we have to send letters to families because we’ve lost a staff member or we’ve lost a student or it spread from a student to a grandmother or a mom or a dad,” said Joe Marshall, representing District 4 in southwest Jefferson County.
“There’s too many variables right now. And what we can control is not allowing more traffic into buildings and not allowing this to spread.”
Beginning the school year remotely is one of two proposals Jefferson County Public Schools will present to its board Tuesday. The other would give families a choice between in-person classes or 100% online learning.
Officials for the roughly 98,000-student district had been “clearly moving towards in-person instruction, five days a week,” Superintendent Marty Pollio told The Courier Journal on Tuesday.
