IOWA - School Districts in Iowa continue to make arrangements in response to the state requirement for 50 percent of classes to be held in person.
The West Des Moines Board of Education is holding a special workshop to discuss Return-to-Learn planning at 5:15 p.m. Wednesday. It will not includes an open forum.
Families in the West Des Moines district chose between on-site or online learning for the first semester, which starts August 26th.
It's following state guidelines to determine when online only classes are called for, and is basing its decisions on the percentage of COVID-19 cases in Polk County.
Meanwhile, the Iowa City School District’s first day of school will be delayed two weeks until Sept. 8 as it awaits word from the state on its request to begin the year entirely online.
All the district’s school board members voted during a special meeting Tuesday in favor of delaying the first day to help slow the spread of the coronavirus.
The Des Moines School District has chosen to delay the start of the school year to shortly after Labor Day, with all classes to be held online.
Governor Reynolds said the state would be meeting with the Des Moines district Tuesday to discuss back to school plans.
The current Des Moines plan calls for elementary and middle school students to return to a mixture of online and on-site classes when safe, while all high school classes would be online for the fall semester.