{"id":4831,"date":"2020-07-29T13:52:15","date_gmt":"2020-07-29T18:52:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/waxahachie360.com\/?p=4831"},"modified":"2020-07-29T13:52:15","modified_gmt":"2020-07-29T18:52:15","slug":"wisd-posts-series-of-2020-school-year-disease-mitigation-guides","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/waxahachie360.com\/waxahachie-news\/2020\/07\/29\/wisd-posts-series-of-2020-school-year-disease-mitigation-guides\/","title":{"rendered":"WISD posts series of 2020-2021 school year disease mitigation guides"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap wp-block-paragraph\">Waxahachie ISD has posted a series of guide documents for the 2020-2021 school year to its website following a <a href=\"https:\/\/waxahachie360.com\/wisd-to-start-school-august-17-with-social-distancing-masks-and-hand-sanitizer\/\">late-July board meeting<\/a> and final decisions based on TEA requirements about how to handle the start of the fall semester amid a global pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A total of four documents pertain to the district&#8217;s reopening plans:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Fall 2020 School Year Guidance Elementary School<\/li><li>Fall 2020 School Year Guidance Secondary \u2013 Grades 6-12<\/li><li>2020-2021 School Year Guidance Disease Mitigation Guidelines for Parents and Students<\/li><li>Fall 2020 School Year Guidance &#8211; Special Education<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As anticipated, the plans depend heavily on a strategy of face mask requirements for grades 4 and up, social distancing as much as possible and frequent cleaning of school facilities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Also mentioned in the guides are protocols for screening students and faculty for COVID-19, how visitors and teacher-parent meetings will be handled, and somewhat vague guidelines for how classrooms will be arranged to mitigate disease risks with a statement that additional guidelines can be found in campus-level documents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The district&#8217;s guide for special education has a more detailed exposition on protocol to be followed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The documents are available for download at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wisd.org\/apps\/pages\/Guidance20-21\">https:\/\/www.wisd.org\/apps\/pages\/Guidance20-21<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Waxahachie ISD has posted a series of guide documents for the 2020 school year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4849,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"Waxahachie ISD has posted a series of guide about how to handle the start of the fall semester amid a global virus pandemic.","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":301,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"Waxahachie, school, virus, guide","_wp_convertkit_post_meta":{"form":"-1","landing_page":"0","tag":"0","restrict_content":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-schools","infinite-scroll-item","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-33"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/waxahachie360.com\/waxahachie-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/waxahachie360.com\/waxahachie-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/waxahachie360.com\/waxahachie-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/waxahachie360.com\/waxahachie-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/waxahachie360.com\/waxahachie-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/waxahachie360.com\/waxahachie-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4831\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/waxahachie360.com\/waxahachie-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/waxahachie360.com\/waxahachie-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/waxahachie360.com\/waxahachie-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/waxahachie360.com\/waxahachie-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}