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		<title>Cecil County Schools to Require Masks for Students, Staff to Keep Schools Open Despite High COVID Rates, Low Vaccinations; 2 Politicians Fuel Anti-Mask Furor</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Aug 2021 01:04:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cecil County Public Schools (CCPS) will require students and staff to wear protective masks indoors, and on school buses, when classes resume on 9/1/2021, Schools Superintendent Jeff Lawson announced Wednesday (8/25/2021) in a video posted online. The masking rules are in response to high rates of COVID-19 infections in the county and rising counts of childhood infections. Lawson said the decision was designed to keep the schools open and prevent potential mandatory quarantines that could result in school closings if there were rising positivity rates for COVID-19. “It’s about keeping schools open,” he said. “This has been a constant challenge,” Lawson said of the past year in coping with the ups and downs of the pandemic and requirements to quarantine students after positive tests. CCPS was one of the more “open” school systems in the state during the last academic year, mixing online learning options with gradually increasing in-person classroom teaching with social distancing, masks, and shield options. But infection outbreaks required some shutdowns of in person learning programs. Lawson said the new mask rules would, under state and federal guidelines, permit smaller group quarantines if a student tested positive for COVID and make it less likely that an entire [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>COVID-19: Schools to Stay Closed to May 15; Cecil County Exec Proposes Emergency Medical Sites, Financed by Budget Cuts</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Apr 2020 00:13:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cecil County Public Schools (CCPS) will remain closed through 5/14/2020, according to a new state order. And Cecil County Executive Alan McCarthy is proposing legislation for up to $450,000 in emergency medical services—financed by budget cuts and cost savings&#8211; to treat COVID-19 patients if there is a surge in the virus, which has already claimed two lives locally with 132 positive tests so far in the county. The Cecil County emergency health initiative would be financed by budget cuts and cost savings, and would not increase overall county spending or taxpayer costs, according to budget documents The proposal would greatly expand services, if needed for critically ill and recovering virus patients, at a time when confirmed cases have been rising significantly on a daily basis.. Speaking at an Annapolis press conference with Gov. Larry Hogan on Friday (4/17/2020) afternoon, Karen Salmon, the state superintendent of schools, announced that schools throughout the state would remain closed through May 15, extending previous orders that had shut down public schools across the state through April 24 due to the COVID-19 virus. But she stopped short of closing schools for the rest of the academic year, which extends through mid-June in most counties in [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Gov. Hogan Closes Maryland Public Schools; Expands Emergency Powers as Cecil County Prepares for Virus Impact</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2020 23:46:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Maryland Governor Larry Hogan announced late Thursday (3/12/2020) a series of emergency steps to address the COVID-19 coronavirus, including closure of all public schools in the state for two weeks, effective on Monday 3/16/2020 until 3/27/2020. Hogan’s announcement came two hours after Cecil County Executive Alan McCarthy held a press conference, surrounded by local officials involved in the local response to the virus, to address the public health emergency. Hogan, who had previously declared a state of emergency in the state to cope with the health issue, said during a televised press conference in Annapolis that the state Superintendent of Schools had decided—and his team of health and emergency services advisors agreed—that all state public schools will close .as of Monday and stay closed for two weeks to allow deep cleaning and disinfecting of school facilities. The governor announced the first case of a “community” transmission of the virus, meaning that someone with no history of travel outside the US or contact with a known virus-positive person, had been diagnosed in Prince George’s County. He said a total of 12 people in the state had tested positive for the virus, primarily after international travel. Hogan also said he would close [&#8230;]]]></description>
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