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Capital Highlights: Dozens of school districts close due to COVID-19 outbreaks
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Staff Report, on
January 19, 2022
Capital Highlights: Dozens of school districts close due to COVID-19 outbreaks

By Gary Borders

Several dozen school districts across the state were forced to close last week due to the omicron variant of COVID-19 sending home students, staff and teachers. Most school districts planned to reopen on Tuesday following the MLK holiday.

“Every superintendent wants to be able to have kids in the classroom and teachers in the classroom … but you get to a certain critical place where you don’t have enough staff available and you have to shut the campus down,&rdquo...

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