MCPS

The Missoula County Public Schools Board of Trustees decided at their Tuesday night meeting to upgrade participation for students in the next semester.

The Missoula Family YMCA is planning to decrease its out of school program costs by as much as 50 percent, while also adding more program sites for school children.

With higher and higher COVID 19 case numbers being recorded in Missoula County, the Public School Board of Trustees has mandated that the transition to the next phase for MCPS be delayed.

MCPS plans to transition to Phase 2 in October, where students will eventually be in the classroom five days a week.

A letter was sent to parents at Missoula’s Sentinel High School from school officials, Missoula County Public Schools and the Missoula City County Health Department about a student with a confirmed case of COVID 19.

The first full week of Missoula public school is in the books and to say it has been different from other first weeks is a definite understatement.

Thousands of kids from kindergarten to high school will enter a brave new world on Wednesday morning, as each child will be mindful of protecting themselves against COVID 19.

MCPS chooses Phase 1 or the hybrid model for the start of the school year with some days in class and the others in remote learning from home.

Watching the COVID 19 case numbers from the County Health Department carefully, Missoula County Public School Superintendent Rob Watson has determined that the safest way to start the school year is in Phase 2, or the Hybrid method.

Following the latest MCPS School Board meeting, Superintendent Rob Watson revealed details of the district’s phased reopening of Missoula Public Schools.

Missoula County Public Schools have always used the University of Montana for graduation exercises, but this year, not at the Adams Center, but instead, inside Washington Grizzly Stadium.

After announcing that churches, then stores, bars, taverns and restaurants would be allowed to open over a two week period, Governor Bullock then lifted the order to close the state’s schools as of May 7.