How Schools Are Preparing for the Perfect Storm of Holiday Travel and COVID-19

Education Week: Rapidly rising coronavirus cases nationwide and upcoming holiday travel plans could be the perfect storm to trigger COVID-19 spikes among students and teachers. That possibility is putting principals, school district leaders, and state officials in the difficult spot of telling families what they should do during the holidays, but without the power to enforce that guidance.

“It’s not my place at all to tell them they can’t go out of town. It’s a free country,” said Mike Lubelfeld, the superintendent of the Northshore School district 112 in Highland Park, Ill., near Chicago.

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