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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
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Students are getting settled into their new classrooms in the Waunakee Community School District and the superintendent’s main goal is to keep them there.
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Practice literally made perfect for one senior at Waunakee Community High School. Alex Zimprich recently scored a perfect 36 on his ACT.
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District spokesperson Tim LeMonds said there are currently no cases of what is defined as an “outbreak” in any MMSD school, but not all parents are convinced.
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Leigh Mills sat down one-on-one with State Superintendent of Public Instruction Dr. Jill Underly prior to the start of the school year.
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The Sun Prairie School District reports 22 active COVID-19 cases out of over 8,000 in-person students.
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The first day of school at Middleton High School was extra special this year, as students got their first look at a new expansion project.
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Gov. Tony Evers may be a Democrat in real life but when it comes to Hogwarts, he’s not falling into the Gryffindor or Slytherin camps anytime soon.
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The MMSD spokesperson asked for patience as the district plans out the virtual option, saying they wanted to give it to as many families as possible.
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Some students in the Middleton-Cross Plains Area School District started classes on Wednesday.
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Dr. Marcia Slattery explained that a common trigger for anxiety is the uncertainty about the upcoming school year.
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Eager students and staff arrived for the first bell at Sugar Creek Elementary School in Verona to start a new school year on Wednesday. Verona Area School District officials say this is the second largest elementary school in Dane County, with many newcomers this year from other districts and even other countries.
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With students going back to in-person learning, there is concern that many will encounter newfound peer pressure to use e-cigarettes. UW Madison Associate Professor of Pediatric Pulmonology, Dr. Vivek Balasubramaniam (MD), said the teen vaping crisis took a backseat during the pandemic, but it never went away.
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Nonprofit Waiting to Exhale Events organized the event, collecting donations from retailers and individuals.
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Some parents are feeling whiplash from the many last-minute changes happening in Madison schools.
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A band teacher in Sun Prairie is pleading with public health officials to reconsider a rule that currently bans his students from playing wind instruments inside.
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Hundreds of Wisconsin doctors put out an open letter to schools and parents across the state, urging them to implement masking and other measures to protect children from COVID-19.
NBC15's Leigh Mills sat down with Dr. Jill Underly, State Superintendent of the Department of Public Instruction, to learn about her expectations heading into the new school year.
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Many students and their parents are entering this new year cautiously, as the threat of COVID-19 looms. Dr. Jeff Pothof, UW Health’s Chief Quality Officer, said mask-wearing is of the utmost importance in any school.
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NBC15 shared their favorite back to school photos, plus some people shared why they loved their photo so much.
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Overall in the state, 50.7% of residents have completed their vaccine series and 53.9% have received at least their first vaccine.
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Monday was the first day of school for the Sun Prairie Area School District, which received an exemption to start school prior to September 1st.
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While parents and students may be in full gear for back-to-school, a nationwide bus driver shortage is forcing DeForest schools to create back-up plans.
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Many area school districts are preparing to welcome students for a new calendar year, while parents try to ease the back-to-school nerves their children may be experiencing.
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In a school district prepared to take a fluid approach to a mask policy, one parent says her daughter’s medical needs call for a mask requirement.
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One is the claim that kids don’t get seriously sick from COVID-19. Dr. DeMuri said although rates of hospitalization and death are lower among kids than adults, children can experience severe illness from COVID.