A Pennsylvania appeals court heard arguments Wednesday on whether the Wolf administration had the legal right to impose a mask mandate on K-12 schools and child care facilities to help prevent the spread of COVID-19. The state's acting health secretary ordered students, teachers and staff to ...
SINCLAIRVILLE — The Cassadaga Valley Central School District was not able to run some of its bus routes on Monday morning due to driver shortages. On Sunday night, the district posted a notice to parents on Facebook that stated, “Due to an unexpected bus driver shortage, we are unable to transport students who ride buses 181, 182, and 187 tomorrow.” The message went on to inform parents that they had the option to self-transport their children to school or access content on Google Classroom remotely. Superintendent Charles Leichner on Monday said the district, like others ...
PHENIX CITY, Ala. (AP) — Sometimes when she's feeding her infant daughter, Amanda Harrison is overcome with emotion and has to wipe away tears of gratitude. She is lucky to be here, holding her baby. Harrison was 29 weeks pregnant and unvaccinated when she got sick with COVID-19 in ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal regulators are expected to authorize the mixing and matching of COVID-19 booster shots this week in an effort to provide flexibility for those seeking to maintain protection against the coronavirus. The upcoming announcement by the Food and Drug Administration is ...
FREWSBURG — An update was provided to the Frewsburg Central School Board on how the district is dealing with COVID-19 and the testing of teachers who haven’t been vaccinated. Shelly O’Boyle, Frewsburg superintendent, told the board that since the first day of school the district has had one adult and eight students test positive at Robert H. Jackson Elementary School and four adults and seven students test positive at the middle/high school. “The number of positive cases at the (middle/high school) was predominantly athletics-related,” she said. “As was the case last ...
WASHIINGTON (AP) — Colin Powell, who served Democratic and Republican presidents in war and peace but whose sterling reputation was forever stained when he went before the U.N. and made faulty claims to justify the U.S. war in Iraq, has died of COVID-19 complications. He was 84. In 1989 ...
