-
With the 2019-2020 school year completed, along with high school graduations that included social distancing, Clear Creek ISD officials are pondering how best to plan for the coming school year as the coronavirus pandemic threat continues.
With the 2019-2020 school year completed, along with high school graduations that included social distancing, Clear Creek ISD officials are pondering how best to plan for the coming school year as the
Photo: Brett Coomer, Houston Chronicle / Staff Photographer
With the 2019-2020 school year completed, along with high school graduations that included social distancing, Clear Creek ISD officials are pondering how best to plan for the coming school year as the coronavirus pandemic threat continues.
With the 2019-2020 school year completed, along with high school graduations that included social distancing, Clear Creek ISD officials are pondering how best to plan for the coming school year as the
Photo: Brett Coomer, Houston Chronicle / Staff Photographer
An online survey could have a direct impact on the upcoming Clear Creek school calendar.
The survey is one of the last steps the district’s Safely Reopen CCISD Committee will take before making final recommendations to the school board June 22.
The survey will be online until 8 p.m. June 16. The timing for that coincides with a public hearing on the recommendation from 6:30-8 p.m. the same day at the Challenger Columbia Stadium Field House, 1955 W. NASA Parkway. That meeting will also be live-streamed.
“Our charges were to develop potential options to resume school in August,” committee co-chair Henry Gonzalez said.
The group developed a host of recommendations for the district to follow, including ensuring all students have digital access and developing health plans for children who are high risk or immunocompromised. The one that probably concerns the most is the school calendar.
The committee’s recommendations included:
Hew as closely as possible to the 2020-2021 calendar, with school running from Aug. 18 to May 27, 2021.
Develop a modified calendar that transitions to online learning in the event of a COVID-19 resurgence, and
Develop a flexible schedule that features staggered starts and half-day and alternate-day scheduling.
Once the school board makes a decision on the calendar options June 22, district staff will then come up with a plan, Superintendent Greg Smith said.
“We hope to have (things) wrapped up by the end of July, where we can say, ‘In August, it is going to look like this on Day 1, Day 2, Day 3,’” he said.
There could still be some uncertainty, however.
“We also have to give some consideration to what the governor might say in July,” Smith said. “We could tie ourselves up by saying it’s going to be this way in June and then have to reverse course in July. So, we have to be very careful about putting ourselves in a corner.”
John DeLapp is a freelance writer. He can be contacted at [email protected].
