Newark Public Schools students and staff might be allowed to drop their face masks starting May 2, if the COVID infection rate in the district remains low, the teachers union president said. The decision to ease the district’s face mask mandate and other COVID-related rules will depend on results from at-home rapid tests students and […]
With winter break just days away, Newark schools are seeing a sharp spike in positive COVID-19 cases as the omicron and delta variants continue to fuel the latest surge, causing hundreds of students to switch to remote learning. Throughout the city, entire classrooms have switched to remote learning in recent days, though an exact number […]
At least seven locations in Newark began offering the pediatric COVID vaccine this week for children as young as 5 and city schools worked to set up vaccination events, steps that state health officials say will help keep classrooms safe. The New Jersey Department of Health announced Wednesday that about 760,000 5- to 11-year-olds in […]
