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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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It was a challenging year for students and instructors at the Madison College Paramedic Academy, where students learn the advanced life-saving skills needed to be paramedics. Now, instructors are looking back on what was ultimately a successful year, where all Academy students graduated, and they're looking at the positive ways the program's moving forward because of those challenges.
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The school district argues it is following guidelines from local public health officials.
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The young students at West Middleton Elementary School celebrated some of their final days of class as kindergarteners.
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Students in grades K-4 in the Middleton-Cross Plains Area School District adjust to more in-person learning.
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Students at the Madison College Paramedic Academy are for the most part just a written exam away from their goal of becoming paramedics. We are following Madison Firefighter Tasha Kirch, as she nears the end of her intensive training, by gaining experience in the field on real calls.
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With roughly a month remaining in the school year, it’s almost like the start of a normal school year for a Doug Maughan’s 7th grade classroom at Patrick Marsh Middle School as more kids return to in-person learning.
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The role of Dane County Executive will be in the hands of voters in less than two weeks. In the April 6th Spring election Mary Ann Nicholson is taking on incumbent of 10 years, Joe Parisi, for the role. NBC15 spoke with both candidates virtually for a question & answer session Wednesday, touching on topics from the past year and their goals moving forward.
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Districts are finding creative ways to safely give students unique experiences while staying in the classroom.
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The Madison Metropolitan School District will continue its phased approach back to the classroom, after kindergarteners returned this week. Starting Tuesday, first and second graders will go back for four full days of in-person instruction.
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Tuesday, March 9 is the first day back in the classroom for Madison schools.
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Madison College Paramedic Academy students are now training in the field, going on real calls with certified paramedics supervising and giving advice when needed. For one Madison firefighter, serving her community is the culmination of a dream and a goal that began at age 9, after a tragedy took the lives of kids in her neighborhood.
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MCPASD kindergartners attend school in-person two days a week using a hybrid learning model.
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According to a local doctor, in-person learning for young students help with the development of social and communication skills.
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Students are back in the classroom in the Sun Prairie School District. They returned on Feb. 22 for the first time in almost a year. In Monday’s special report, “Class During Covid,” NBC15 returns to Patrick Marsh Middle School to see what the process looked like to get students back in the building.
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Full time homework is the reality for many students right now who are learning remotely to stay connected to their classrooms. The virtual aspect can make certain subjects harder to learn.
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The districts have been working with SSM Health/Dean Healthcare since January to set up a one-day vaccination clinic to administer the first dose to all district staff.
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The university started sending warning emails to students who may have not been tested often enough.
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The guards work at 52 crosswalks around Madison. Eleven of those locations are currently vacant.
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The new elementary school was set to open in the fall of 2020, but the COVID-19 pandemic delayed the start date to February 2021.
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Teachers have defied orders to come to class ahead of students.
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West Middleton teacher Amy Blake says she’s amazed at how well her students are doing after five months of virtual learning.
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Madison College Paramedic Academy students are wrapping up their college class work and lab work. They will soon get ready to work out in the field to train with area paramedics on real calls.
Class During Covid: The “Covid-slide” in standardized test scoresThe pandemic has disrupted the entire education system and that includes standardized tests. NBC15’s Amy Pflugshaupt explores what’s the right answer when trying to measure student success.
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More local school districts are learning when and where their staff members can line up for the COVID-19 vaccine, including the Brodhead School District.The district has planned an early release day for January 27th, so that their educators will have the remainder of the day to get vaccinated.
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The health department says there were extra doses from the Phase 1a roll-out that are being given to essential workers.