Clark County School District's Aggie Roberts Elementary School second grade teacher Brandalyn Morville leads her student during their morning activities. | facebook.com/ClarkCountySchoolDistrict/photos/a.10150715257802996/10154838425612996
Clark County School District's Aggie Roberts Elementary School second grade teacher Brandalyn Morville leads her student during their morning activities. | facebook.com/ClarkCountySchoolDistrict/photos/a.10150715257802996/10154838425612996
Las Vegas schoolchildren will get a longer-than-normal holiday weekend.
The Clark County School District announced it is closing all schools Friday and Tuesday, bookending the three-day weekend that was scheduled for Martin Luther King Day, because of the surge in COVID-19 cases, Fox 5 reported.
“The 5th largest school district in the country is taking a 5-day ‘pause,’” Adam Paul Laxalt tweeted. “Remember what happened last time they told us shutting down was just temporary?”
The increase in cases has prompted staffing shortages, as those who test positive isolate, and concern about keeping children healthy.
The district reported more than 10,500 COVID-19 cases since July. About two-thirds of those cases, 7,000, have been among students, and 3,000 have been among staffers, Fox 5 reported.
More than 2,200 cases, or one in five, have come this month, and the month is only about one-third over.
Nevada also put mask mandates back into effect for most counties. The mandate calls for everyone, regardless of vaccination status, to wear a mask in public indoor settings.
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