The Kalamazoo Public Schools District has decided to finish the current 2020-2021 school year with remote learning in place for the third and final semester of the year. Trimester 3 begins on March 15 and ends June 11, the last day of school.
The Kalamazoo Public Schools will conduct virtual town halls with "stakeholders" to discuss how learning will happen in the second trimester of the current school year.
In a year that seems like it's been one long string of bad news, Kalamazoo Public Schools has something to be proud of. KPS reports this past school year it had its highest number of graduates since The Kalamazoo Promise was announced 15 years ago.
New state Covid0-19 rules that went into effect on July 31st have forced Kalamazoo Public Schools officials to move Kalamazoo's three graduation ceremonies outdoors.
The stress never lets up. With all the serious events happening all around us, in both the nation and locally, the Kalamazoo Public Schools' budget meetings starting tonight will carry their own amount of stress, as financial decisions need to be made, under the scope and spotlight of the Covid-19 pandemic.
The announcement is no surprise to anyone, but the Kalamazoo Public Schools made it official Thursday night. Graduation ceremonies for the Class of 2020 will be virtual, and not actual.