Decision Due Friday on Resumption of In-Class Learning at Keystone Central

BALD EAGLE TOWNSHIP- The Keystone Central School District is hoping to go back to in-class instruction on Monday, Nov. 16 but that decision won’t be made until the afternoon of Friday, Nov. 13.

School district superintendent Jacquelyn Martin, at the Thursday night school board meeting, said the district is “planning to return” next Monday and that decision will be made after new COVID-19 numbers become available on Friday. She said input will be sought from, among others, area medical facilities and noted that case numbers are trending up across the state and locally. “That’s our goal,” she said, “to get back to school,” and later added, “If we can do it safely.”

In her update, the superintendent said while there has been a large number within the district family quarantined, there have been few cases to this point.

The district this week is in the second week of a two-week online instructional program after a late October uptick in coronavirus cases. She did say the district has received positive feedback as to how online learning is proceeding, compared to in the spring when education within the district went to online only with the initial outbreak of COVID-19. She said the district is working through the occasional technical glitches in providing the virtual learning.