Schools and COVID

School administrators, teachers, staff, students and their families are facing a resurgence of Covid cases as the omicron variant spreads rapidly.

The pandemic is far from over, with the omicron variant driving cases of the virus to record levels as Americans enter a new year.

Students return to school Monday during a time where Covid-19 continues to surge in South Florida. 10,000 at-home test kits were handed out to teachers and staff in Miami-Dade at five locations. Miami-Dade Superintendent Alberto Carvalho was helping hand out the tests at Miami Senior High School. Some teachers say they’re nervous to go back but get...

The Archdiocese of Miami will again require students and staff to temporarily mask up indoors once classes begin Monday, Jan. 3.

Mask requirements are returning in some school districts that had dropped them

If Palm Beach County School Board members get their way, people who address them at their meetings soon will have to refrain from saying their names or personally criticizing them. A proposed change in the rules for public comment at board meetings says “speakers may not address Board members by name and personal attacks against individual Board me...

As students prepare to head back to classrooms, Miami-Dade County Public Schools announced that it is modifying its existing COVID-19 protocols due to the surge in cases during the holidays, driven by the highly contagious omicron variant. In a tweet, MDCPS announced that beginning Monday, all MDCPS employees, volunteers, visitors and contractors w...

The Archdiocese of Miami’s mask policy for its 61 schools is currently more strict than the public school districts. To opt out of wearing a face covering, Catholic school students at all grades must be fully vaccinated.

A day after Miami-Dade and Broward public schools announced that they’d be relaxing their mask mandates, the Archdiocese of Miami has announced that it’s adjusting its COVID-19 policies for students. Beginning Nov. 15, any archdiocese student in Miami-Dade, Broward or Monroe who is fully vaccinated or with a PCR positive test within the...

Broward County Public Schools is no longer requiring — but “strongly encouraging” — masks for students at all levels starting Nov. 20.

The mandatory mask mandate in Miami-Dade County Public Schools is over.  The district is relaxing mask mandates for all students, citing low rates of COVID-19 infections and hospitalizations in the community. Superintendent Alberto Carvalho announced the change at a news conference Tuesday. Carvalho said starting Wednesday, parents will be abl...

Broward County elementary and middle school students will soon be able to receive the COVID-19 vaccine at their school. Beginning Wednesday, Broward County Public Schools in partnership with the Florida Department of Health, will be making vaccines available to students ages 5 to 11. Department of Health staff will be administering the shots. Vacci...

The first location in South Florida to offer COVID-19 vaccinations to children ages 5 to 11 opened in West Palm Beach Thursday. The Health Care District of Palm Beach County’s mobile clinic is partnering with the Palm Beach County School District to provide the vaccinations, less than 48 hours after the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Pr...