by WFIS | Nov 6, 2020 | Covid-19 WFIS updates, Education News, Student Resources, The Advocate, Uncategorized, WFIS News
Dr. Michelle Zimmerman, Head of School at Renton Prep (a WFIS member) was interviewed by Komo News about the IDM report for the story below. Zimmerman clarified to WFIS, “All of the modeling is matching what we are seeing in action with the countermeasures we...
by WFIS | Oct 13, 2020 | Covid-19, Covid-19 WFIS updates, WFIS News
Band and Choir protocols outlined in the Employer Health & Safety Requirements for School Scenarios released September 30th generated lots of questions from schools already embarking on music programming or about to implement music with their upcoming return to...
by WFIS | Oct 5, 2020 | Covid-19 WFIS updates, Education News, Student Data, WFIS News
from Education Dive newsletter The array of tech solutions popping up and politicization of the issue creates murky territory where one administrator says “You’re damned if you do, and you’re damned if you don’t.” As plans to...
by WFIS | Sep 25, 2020 | Agencies and Committees, Covid-19 WFIS updates, WFIS News
The Federal Office of Non-Public Education today alerted WFIS that U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos sent a letter to Chief State School Officers regarding CARES Act equitable services. In the letter Devos states that the Dept. of Education will not be appealing...
by WFIS | Aug 25, 2020 | Agencies and Committees, Covid-19 Federal & State Agency messages, Covid-19 WFIS updates, EEOC
Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) laws, including the ADA and Rehabilitation Act, continue to apply during the time of the COVID-19 pandemic. The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission webpage was updated on June 17, 2020 outlining a lot of the questions...
by WFIS | Aug 25, 2020 | Covid-19, Covid-19 WFIS updates, Education News, The Advocate, WFIS News
THE NEWS TRIBUNE EDITORIAL BOARD The constant twists and turns of the COVID-19 crisis are more than South Sound schools bargained for, more than they budgeted for and certainly more than they can afford to navigate on their own. When summer vacation ends in a few...
