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TexasTowelie

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Wed Oct 21, 2020, 12:17 AM Oct 2020

Houston ISD Closes 16 Schools Where COVID-19 Detected

Well this was probably not what Interim Superintendent Grenita Lathan and her administration wanted to see as on just Day 2 of in-person classes, the Houston ISD has announced it is temporarily closing 16 campuses where the coronavirus has been detected or is presumed to have arrived.

The schools that are being temporarily closed and scheduled for another round of deep-cleaning include Bellaire High, Daily Elementary, Foerster Elementary, Hines-Caldwell Elementary, Houston Academy for International Studies High, Lanier Middle, Lawson Middle, Lewis Elementary, Pershing Middle, Pilgrim Academy, Piney Point Elementary, Roberts Elementary, Valley West Elementary, Waltrip High, Westbury High and Whittier Elementary.

All students will be in virtual classes until after the clean-up is complete. Parents will be notified when

On October 1, the HISD school board heard from a long line of public speakers asking the district to further delay in-person classes which Lathan was determined to do even though the district already had a waiver allowing it to wait until the first week in November to start classes. At the very least several asked for a staggered reopening, instead of letting in all the students at once.

Read more: https://www.houstonpress.com/news/day-2-shutdown-of-16-hisd-schools-due-to-covid-19-11506082

Note: The sentence at the end of the third paragraph is incomplete on the site.

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