Clark County schools reopen with in-person classes after winter break

Students crossed the Clark County School District returned Wednesday to in-person classes pursuing wintertime interruption amid a crisp surge successful COVID-19 cases passim the Las Vegas Valley.

The nation’s fifth-largest schoolhouse district, with much than 300,000 students and 40,000 employees, said successful a connection to parents Tuesday nighttime that it volition “proactively show schoolhouse unit absences” and deploy cardinal work employees to assistance astatine schools, if needed.

The territory had not provided data, arsenic of 10:30 a.m., astir the fig of students and employees who were absent Wednesday. A territory spokesperson said helium was moving connected that request.

The territory is already facing a staffing shortage, with astir 850 licensed worker vacancies arsenic of mid-December, a fig that has grown since schoolhouse started successful aboriginal August, and hundreds of enactment unit vacancies, including for substitute teachers and schoolhouse autobus drivers.

Meanwhile, 7 Catholic schools tally by the Diocese of Las Vegas were operating with 2 days of region learning connected Tuesday and Wednesday. In-person classes were expected to resume Thursday.

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