The district is working with the Louisville Metro Department of Public Health and Wellness on a plan to offer drive-through vaccination events once JCPS receives doses of COVID-19 vaccines, according to Pollio and a presentation for the Jefferson County Board of Education during a Tuesday meeting.
Marty Pollio said Kentucky's General Assembly should not consider financing school choice measures at the expense of public districts.
JCPS is approaching two months in its nontraditional instruction program called “NTI 2.0,” and the district informed families Thursday that distance learning will continue until local COVID-19 data improve.
The escalations in two key metrics have some members of the Jefferson County Board of Education doubting whether classrooms in Kentucky's largest school district will reopen for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic forced schools across the state to close in March.
Board members Chris Brady, who represents District 7, and Linda Duncan, who represents District 5, said Tuesday that they will not be completely comfortable reopening Jefferson County Public Schools classrooms to students and staff until a COVID-19 vaccine is released or far in development.
Some board members voiced support for seeking revenue growth from property taxes greater than 4% while one urged caution in light of the ongoing public health crisis.
Derb E Cigs President Troy LeBlanc told WDRB News that teenage vaping was not a problem until Juul arrived on the scene.
JCPS opened the 2019-20 school year without a single school resource officer for the first time since 2002.
The district already had anti-tobacco policies, but new the punishments reflect Kentucky's new smoke free schools law, which bans all tobacco and vaping products at events and on school campuses.
A crisis team was brought to the school Tuesday morning to help students and staff.
