While the numbers are improving, COVID is still keeping hundreds of students out of District 186 classrooms.
As of Tuesday night, nearly 2,000 Springfield public school students remained in “exclusion status,” because they had tested positive for the virus, had COVID symptoms, or were a close contact of a positive case. While no entire school buildings have been closed down because of the surge in cases, four classrooms around the district are in an “adaptive pause.”
Superintendent Jennifer Gill says most of those rooms have special needs students who are generally not able to wear masks all day.
