Officials believe they can vaccinate every teacher in the county who wants a shot by the end of next week, they said.
The district was the first in the county to announce its plans in reaction to Gov. Greg Abbott's reopening orders.
Calder Road Elementary School is a nominee for one of the highest honors in U.S. education.
The school made the decision because a large number of staff members are going into quarantine.
The Galveston Community College District Board of Regents has formed a nominating committee to make recommendations to the board to fill the unexpired term of longtime Regent Carl Kelly, who died unexpectedly July 31, officials said.
After a semester heavily dependent on remote learning, educators are working to bring more students back to classrooms and have improved their virtual learning platforms for students who still work from home.
Crenshaw Environmental Science Magnet is the second Galveston ISD school to go remote in a week because of short staffing caused by quarantine.
Galveston's school board wants another 10 months to talk about major changes to its middle-school system.
Failing grades are spiking even among strong students, educators say.
The scholarship will foster the development of aspiring culinary arts professionals enrolled at Galveston College with the first recipients set to be announced in spring 2021, the foundation said.
The campus on Avenue U in Galveston was sterilized while students were at home, administrators said.
The federally supplied kits can detect coronavirus within 15 minutes of a sample being taken.
The small school district will switch all of its students to remote learning for two weeks after two staff members were diagnosed with the virus.
At districts across the county, between 70 percent and 90 percent of students have opted out of virtual learning.
The school district paid $100,000 for 116 superheated, COVID-killing, portable air filters.
Some devices the districts have paid for won't arrive for months because of heavy demand in the pandemic.
A pandemic-fragmented school year likely will disproportionately affect low-income students and students of color, educators say.
Masks, one-way hallways and morning symptom checks are part of the new rules at Santa Fe High School. The school is one of the first in the county to return to class, with other districts soon to follow.
While some parents spent the summer making a tough choice about whether or not to send their students to school in person or virtually, others didn't have a choice.
Commented