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County Positivity Rate Approaches 11% As MCCSC Prepares To Decide School Status

The Monroe County Community School corporation is urging parents to make a plan in case the district changes its learning status. The Metric committee – which determines whether students meet online or in person during the pandemic -  is meeting today.

Good Afternoon MCCSC Families, The MCCSC metrics committee will meet tomorrow, Monday, December 7th. Please have a plan for your family should the learning status change. Thank you. Posted by Monroe County Community School Corporation on Sunday, December 6, 2020

Monroe County’s seven-day positivity rate is one of the numbers the committee looks at when deciding the status of school. It’s been going up the past couple weeks and Sunday it hit 10.8 percent. 

MCCSC is currently in the yellow phase. Elementary students are meeting in person five days a week while middle and high school students are operating under a hybrid schedule.

Previous Reporting: MCCSC Schools To Move To Phase Yellow As COVID-19 Cases Rise

If the district moves to the red phase all learning will be virtual.

A number of districts across the state, including all schools in Indianapolis and Marion County have already gone virtual. 

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Sara Wittmeyer is the News Bureau Chief for WFIU and WTIU. Sara has more than two decades of journalism experience. She led the creation of the converged WFIU/WTIU Newsroom in 2010 and previously served with KBIA at the University of Missouri, WNKU at Northern Kentucky University in Highland Heights, KY, and at WCPO News in Cincinnati.