The Clark County School District is making a handful of changes beginning Wednesday, including no mask requirement on school buses and eliminating mandatory weekly COVID-19 testing.
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The new sites at Texas Station in North Las Vegas and Fiesta Henderson are capable of administering 40,000 tests a day, five days a week.
Both employee and student absences were higher than normal as the district resumed in-person teaching in the midst of a rapid surge of coronavirus around the Las Vegas Valley.
Three employee unions say no formal negotiations have occurred yet with the Clark County School District after the School Board approval of COVID-19 vaccinations on Sept. 2.
The Clark County School District is using a mobile app through emocha Mobile Health and about 42,000 employees are required to answer a series of questions before reporting to work.
Clark County School Board President Linda Cavazos says she has received threats following the board’s decision last week to move forward with mandating COVID-19 vaccinations for employees.
The Clark County School District next week will consider creating a policy that would require all employees to be vaccinated against COVID-19.
The Clark County School District’s board heard an update Thursday on developing an anti-racism policy, but didn’t take action.
“We’ve got to be really careful protecting individual cases,” Clark County schools superintendent says of the decision to withhold the figures.
St. Rose hospitals are the first in Southern Nevada to announce such a requirement.