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When the governor says “closed,” it means Warren County School District is closed, no exceptions for students or parents. The district (WCSD) has tried to answer questions concerning the COVID-19 school closure. But the most common answer seems to point to focusing on staying home and doing your part to help slow the spread of the coronavirus. The closure begins Monday, March 16, for all K-12 Pennsylvania schools. Gov. Tom Wolf has determined schools will be closed for 10 business days (at a minimum), meaning if nothing changes, school will resume Monday, March 30. While school ...

For teachers:

Teachers, much like students, are going to have to wait out the school closure for the most part. “At this time, teachers are permitted to make arrangements to come into the building to get materials, but cannot stay and work in their rooms,” according to a Warren County School District press release. “The district, in this type of situation, is expected to identify employees essential to the operation of the district,” according to the release. “The same set of employees expected to report on a snow day are expected to report during the school closure to continue the ...

Shutdown

Warren County students, and all K-12 students in Pennsylvania, are getting an unscheduled spring break. A day after Ohio and Maryland both closed all public schools for the coming weeks, a similar announcement was made by Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf. Shortly after 3 p.m. Friday, Wolf ...

WCSD’s careful thought process

Warren County School District was in the act of dismissing for the week when officials learned their schools would be closed for two weeks. Gov. Tom Wolf announced the closure of all Pennsylvania K-12 schools at about 3 p.m. Friday. District superintendents throughout the state were briefed Friday morning by Pennsylvania Department of Education Secretary Pedro Rivera. Superintendent Amy Stewart gathered with her colleagues from Erie and Crawford county districts at IU#5 in Edinboro for the briefing. The result of that education community briefing with Rivera did not leave the ...

JCC preparing for online life

JAMESTOWN, N.Y. — As COVID-19 continues to spread globally and many organizations and events are shut down, Jamestown Community College is preparing for a life online. “In all of our meetings, the welfare of our students is always the No. 1 priority,” said Kirk Young, JCC Academic ...

WCSD takes safety action

On Thursday, Warren County School District canceled and postponed public events. Those are the latest local impact of the coronavirus — declared a pandemic Wednesday by the World Health Organization. So far, the district’s actions only impacted Thursday events — opening night of the All-County Musical Junior and middle school volleyball games involving Beaty-Warren Middle School, Eisenhower Middle School, and Tidioute Community Charter School — and a weekend Key Club field trip. The Friday and Saturday performances of the musical were still on. “The administration of ...