Boca Raton Community High Reports 47 Cases. Nearly 800 Cases Added In Schools Since Winter Break. Long Planned In-Service Day Starts Second Semester Amid School Surge. BOCA RATON, FL (BocaNewsNow.com) — The Palm Beach County School District is closed for students on Monday as the teachers and staffers prepare for the start of the second […]
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BOCA RATON, FL (BocaNewsNow.com) — The Palm Beach County School District will almost assuredly pass the 1400 COVID case mark today. The school system reports 1391 cases as of 5:15 a.m. The number is cumulative from mid-September when “brick and mortar” education restarted for some. Roughly 60 percent of the school district’s 180,000 students continue […]
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Health Department Claims No Proof Of In-School Transmission, But Cases Soaring. Calusa Elementary Boca Now 14 Positive Tests. BOCA RATON, FL (BocaNewsNow.com) — The Palm Beach County School District now reports 500 confirmed COVID-19 cases, a dramatic increase of 60 in just one day. At least 279 students and 221 employees have tested positive for […]
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Calusa Elementary Now 13 Cases, Palm Beach Central High Now 19 Cases. Getting Worse. BOCA RATON, FL (BocaNewsNow.com) — There are now 440 confirmed COVID-19 cases in the Palm Beach County School District, with numbers rising daily but parents continuing to send their kids to school, often sick. School District officials continue to tell BocaNewsNow.com […]
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Parent, Not School District, Notified Child’s Classmates and Teacher. Source: School District Lawyers Placing Privacy Over Common Sense. BY: ANDREW COLTON | Editor and Publisher BOCA RATON, FL (BocaNewsNow.com) — A first grader at Whispering Pines Elementary School in West Boca Raton tested positive for COVID-19 last Wednesday, but neither the Palm Beach County School […]
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BOCA RATON, FL (BocaNewsNow.com) — The COVID-19 count continues to rise in the Palm Beach County School district amidst claims that the numbers are dramatically lower than reality due to slow contact tracing by the Florida Department of Health. We reported on this yesterday. There is still no comment from Department of Health Spokesperson Alex […]
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BOCA RATON, FL (BocaNewsNow.com) — The Palm Beach County School District, which guaranteed transparency when it comes to COVID-19 cases, hasn’t updated its highly publicized “dashboard” since October 2nd. That update came after a two-day hiatus. The Palm Beach County School District claims that it updates its numbers at 11:30 p.m. The Florida Department of […]
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School Board Members Debate Mandate As A Preventative Measure To Prevent COVID-Flu Crisis BOCA RATON, FL (BocaNewsNow.com) — The Palm Beach County School Board during its Wednesday meeting debated the appropriate position to take on flu shots for students and staffers during the COVID-19 pandemic. The final decision: no decision for now, but an understanding […]
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