Summit Students To Report To School Aug. 30

SUMMIT, NJ — Summit public school students must report for their first day of school this coming Monday, Aug. 30. Due to evolving guidance from the state, this year's school reopening amid COVID will look different from what was expected as schools let out in June.

Recent announcements from the state included:

• Gov. Murphy Says School Staffs Must Get Vaccine Or Weekly Testing
• NJ K-12 Students Must Wear Masks This Fall, Murphy Says

The Summit School District has set up a dashboard to let the school community know how many students and staff in each school have tested positive for COVID. As of Thursday, five members of the school community were listed as having tested positive, before the new year starts.

Summit Superintendent Scott Hough announced his district's back-to-school plans on Aug. 16. In keeping with state mandates, Summit students will be masked, they will have to quarantine after certain types of travel, and classes will not be remote except under a few circumstances. Summit School Plan: No Remote Except Under These Conditions

The New Jersey Department of Education had told all schools they "must plan to provide full-day, full-time, in-person instruction and operations for the 2021-2022 school year."

In Summit, for now, remote learning will be only offered to those who are sick with COVID, unvaccinated students who return from international travel and are quarantining, and students quarantining because of a close contact, the plan says.

Different districts have announced a variety of plans for students who travel. Many are requiring some quarantining and/or a PCR test when students return from states not contiguous to New Jersey, particularly if students are unvaccinated. Will Fall Travel Plans Mean Remote School? In Some NJ Districts, Yes

"Our goal has always been and will continue to be to return to as much normalcy as possible," Hough said earlier this month. "However, as we approach the third school year dealing with COVID, we have to be mindful of the conditions and trends in our community."

See the school calendar and holidays here: Back to School: Summit 2021-2022 School Calendar

The school board is set to meet Sept. 9. See the meeting dates here.

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