Stillwater school officials will wait another week before deciding on a possible move to distance learning amid rising coronavirus cases.
Interim Superintendent Malinda Lansfeldt told parents in a letter Wednesday that they’ve received new guidance from the Minnesota Department of Education around deciding when it’s safe to hold in-person classes.
“MDE has provided additional direction to districts to evaluate very specific, localized data to better understand how community rates of COVID-19 cases impact the local schools,” she wrote.
School officials will work with state and county public health experts “to dig deeper into data specific to our school district to better understand how instances, like a recent outbreak in local prisons, affect the larger community,” Lansfeldt wrote.
The school board was planning to meet on the matter Thursday night but will wait till Nov. 5 instead.