This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift SharePossibly averting a court battle, Maryland’s largest county on Friday backed off a controversial ban on in-person instruction at private schools.Montgomery County Health Officer Travis Gayles rescinded both of his orders calling for online-only teaching, saying the state’s latest effort to thwart the ban gave him no option, despite his standing concerns about the novel coronavirus pandemic.Gayles “continues to strongly advise schools against in-person learning due to the risks posed by COVID-19,” the county said in a...…This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift SharePossibly averting a court battle, Maryland’s largest county on Friday backed off a controversial ban on in-person instruction at private schools.Montgomery County Health Officer Travis Gayles rescinded both of his orders calling for online-only teaching, saying the state’s latest effort to thwart the ban gave him no option, despite his standing concerns about the novel coronavirus pandemic.Gayles “continues to strongly advise schools against in-person learning due to the risks posed by COVID-19,” the county said in a...WW…

This article was published more than 1 year agoCommentGift ShareSchools in Prince George’s County became the last in Maryland to reopen for in-person instruction Thursday, with 29,000 students part of the first wave of a week-long return to classrooms that were empty for almost 13 months amid the pandemic.The return came with excitement, anxiety, thrill and some reservations, as school leaders welcomed children in prekindergarten to sixth grade, along with high school seniors and students in special-education programs.By mid-April, an additional 10,500 students in seventh to 11th...…This article was published more than 1 year agoCommentGift ShareSchools in Prince George’s County became the last in Maryland to reopen for in-person instruction Thursday, with 29,000 students part of the first wave of a week-long return to classrooms that were empty for almost 13 months amid the pandemic.The return came with excitement, anxiety, thrill and some reservations, as school leaders welcomed children in prekindergarten to sixth grade, along with high school seniors and students in special-education programs.By mid-April, an additional 10,500 students in seventh to 11th...WW…