Kentucky Senate leaders cite 'frustration' over lack of school COVID-19 reopening directions

Kentucky Senate President Robert Stivers and other Senate leaders told Interim Education Commissioner Kevin Brown in a letter to speed up giving school superintendents directions on how to reopen schools amid a coronavirus outbreak.

“...There is a great deal of frustration among local school district leaders regarding the failure of KDE and the Education and Workforce Development Cabinet to set forth tangible standards and directives for beginning school in the fall,” said the June 18 letter signed by Stivers, Senate President Pro Tem David Givens and Senate Education Committee Chairman Max Wise.

Kentucky schools shut down to in-person learning in March and switched to at home learning called non-traditional instruction.

Superintendents are trying to figure out whether and how to reopen schools in the fall, but they haven’t received firm instructions from the Kentucky Department of Education. The department is expected to release general guidance, and each district will decide whether to require masks, temperature taking, having kids attend in person classes on alternate days or other measures.

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