Denver Public Schools leaders expect students will return to full-time, in-person learning this fall, and at this point, the district is not planning to require students and staff to be vaccinated against COVID-19. During a news conference Thursday, Tamara Acevedo,…
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Covid 19 coronavirus: Auckland Airport worker tests positive for Covid-19
An Auckland Airport worker has tested positive for Covid-19 on the second day of the transtasman bubble. There are no new community cases of COVID-19 to report today, the Ministry of Health said but the airport worker, classified as a…
Jacinda Ardern to companies contracting frontline workers: Test your staff or face the consequences
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has issued an explicit reminder to private companies with staff on the frontline: Test your staff or face the consequences. This comes after a security guard working at the Grand Millennium MIQ facility tested positive for…
Douglas County School District superintendent finalists announced
The Douglas County School District has announced four finalists for superintendent, including Corey Wise, who is currently acting as the interim leader of the district. The finalists include: Corey Wise, interim superintendent for Douglas County, who has 25 years of…
More police please: Packed Paihia meeting calls for more officers in Bay of Islands
The organiser of a packed public meeting calling for more police in Paihia now plans to lobby the Government for better resourcing of Northland’s thin blue line. The meeting, which followed a petition calling for permanent staffing of the Bay…
DPS board member Tay Anderson refutes sexual assault allegation
Denver Public Schools board member Tay Anderson said Saturday that an allegation of sexual assault made by a local chapter of Black Lives Matter on behalf of an anonymous woman is untrue. On Friday, Black Lives Matter 5280 published a…
Dilworth sex abuse victim: ‘He got away with it for so many years’
Dilworth School student Neil Harding was only 12 years old when he was called to his scout master’s home one evening. He wasn’t sure why he was being summoned but he did as he was told — it was after…
Covid-19 coronavirus: Ministry of Health to update numbers
The Ministry of Health will this afternoon provide an update on Covid-19 cases in New Zealand. Today marks 19 days since the last case of community transmission was reported on February 28 as part of the Valentine’s Day cluster in…
One dead after car and truck collide in Dargaville
A person is dead after a truck crash in Dargaville this morning. Emergency services were called to the collision between a car and truck on Jervois St, near the outskirts of the town at 5.45am. Police confirmed a person died…
In Pandemic’s Wake, Learning Pods and Microschools Take Root
This article is part of our latest Learning special report, which focuses on ways that remote learning will shape the future. In March, when the coronavirus shut down schools in Portland, Ore., Juliet Travis was desperate to find ways to…