We know COVID-19 will impact your child’s school year. All month long, we’re asking questions—to help you prepare. Questions like how will they clean classrooms and keep the virus out? Whether your child is learning in the classroom or at home, you have some big choices to make, and a new normal to navigate. We’re here to help you with special reports in all of our newscasts and here on NBC15.com
New COVID-19 measures in place as students gradually resume in-person classes.
NBC15 launches year long project following classrooms across our viewing area to see how COVID-19 impacts students and schools.
Students with Autism are feeling more at ease with the smaller class sizes and expanding their curriculum with virtual class options.
Portage High School English teacher Nicole Giessel is excited to be back in her classroom this year as students return with a hybrid learning model combining virtual and in-person class time.
To learn how to save lives, in-person classes can be a life saver for students. Madison College Paramedic Academy Student Heather Seeber said, "So much of what we do as paramedics is hands-on. It’s really hard if you’re doing a virtual IV. "
Most students who attend Van Buren Elementary School in Janesville are physically in class but there are some major rule changes they need to keep in mind
NBC15 launches year long project following classrooms across our viewing area to see how COVID-19 impacts students and schools.
Parisi’s call comes as the state of Wisconsin surpassed 100,000 confirmed coronavirus cases Sunday.
All Markesan School District staff members will be utilizing the break to deep clean schools, adjust and adopt practices, and plan for virtual instruction.
Monroe High School students are to attend school virtually from Monday, Sept. 21 through Thursday Oct. 1.
Lake Mills High School shifted to virtual learning this week after three positive COVID-19 cases were linked to the school.
Food boxes that include 10 healthy balanced meals for breakfast and lunch are an option for students in MMSD.
Students in the Monroe School District alternate weekly between in-person and virtual instruction. Teachers at one elementary school say students have adjusted to the new routine well.
Johnson Controls has seen an increase in HVAC update requests
Interest in a virtual career academy, as well as interest in homeschooling, spiked as families look for learning alternatives during the pandemic.
UW-Madison’s Faculty Senate voted in favor of canceling the university’s 2021 spring break on Monday afternoon.
The Monticello School District has used telepresence units to allow teachers to hold classes across several different high schools.
“It’s hard, kind of feeling like you’re on house arrest almost." UW-Madison students work through quarantine in fraternity and sorority houses.
Students learning virtually in Milton are putting their lessons on hold Friday following an internet service issue.
Dodgeville School District wraps up the second week of in-person learning with things going smooth so far.
In a virtual start to the year, some Middleton High students are challenging their school’s decision to keep the letter grading scale.
All of the studying and classroom observation hours in college never prepared this new crop of teachers for online learning.
In an interview with NBC15 Investigates, The State Supt. of Public Instruction Carolyn Stanford Taylor said there are other educators willing and able to step in.
NBC15 Investigates learned that if a teacher or student tests positive for COVID-19, educators are expected to call state and local health departments right away.
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The school will have no in-person classes for the next two weeks after at least seven students tested positive for COVID-19.