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42 Massachusetts Colleges Deal With COVID-19 Outbreaks; 1,000 NE Students And Staff Infected 42 Massachusetts Colleges Deal With COVID-19 Outbreaks; 1,000 NE Students And Staff Infected
42 Massachusetts Colleges Deal With Covid-19 Outbreaks; 1,000 NE Students And Staff Infected COVID-19 outbreaks on New England college campuses have infected more than 1,000 students *and staff since the pandemic began. Massachusetts has had 439 cases at 42 schools while neighboring Connecticut has had 434 cases at 10 schools. As for the rest of New England: Vermont has had 34 cases at 8 schools, New Hampshire has had 68 cases at 6 schools, Maine has had 44 cases at 10 schools, and Rhode Island has had 62 cases at 8 schools, according to a New York Times database. That makes a total of 1,047 college and university students and staff who have contracted COVID-19. The NYT has kept …

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by Kristin Palpini
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First Day Of School Cancelled In Hartford; Students Were To Return To Class Tuesday, Sept. 8 First Day Of School Cancelled In Hartford; Students Were To Return To Class Tuesday, Sept. 8
First Day Of School Cancelled In Hartford; Students Were To Return To Class Tuesday, Sept. 8 Today was supposed to be the start of the new school year for many Hartford students. But a ransomware attack has delayed the beginning of the academic year. In a letter home to parents, Hartford Public School District administrators said that there would be no in-person or online learning today, Tuesday, Sept. 8. The ransomware “caused an outage of critical system and restoration of those systems are not complete,” the letter said. It is unclear when classes will resume.

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by Kristin Palpini
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COVID-19: Learning Pods Among Alternatives To In-Classroom Learning Being Pursued By Parents COVID-19: Learning Pods Among Alternatives To In-Classroom Learning Being Pursued By Parents
Covid-19: Learning Pods Among Alternatives To In-Classroom Learning Being Pursued By Parents With some in-class school reopenings looming amid the COVID-19 pandemic, many parents are realizing that sending their children off on crowded buses to crowded classrooms may not feel safe.  Torn between their children's safety and conflicting need for in-person socialization -- not to mention the stressors of overseeing their children's' educations alongside the usual caregiving and their careers - some are turning to "learning pods" at home. So-called "learning pods" or "pandemic pods" -- mini-classrooms consisting of the children of two to five families, according to The New York Ti…

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by Christina Coulter