The state's ‘Reopen Connecticut Advisory Group' held a roundtable meeting discussion Monday on COVID-19's impacts on Connecticut schools.

Superintendents expect a hybrid system this fall where some students will be taught in person and others in a 'distance learning' setting from home.

School systems say they are extremely worried about having enough money to make classes happen safely.

Bob Rader of the CT Association of Boards of Education says classrooms will look differently once school is back in session.

"They will need to have classrooms in which kids are far enough apart. They will need to have enough buses so kids can stay far enough apart, and those are some of the things we're looking at," Rader says.

Today the state epidemiologist told school systems they need to be prepared to rapidly respond to a second wave of COVID this fall.

Gov. Ned Lamont announced last week that K-12 schools will remain closed for the rest of the academic year as distance learning continues.

The roundtable invited the public to submit their questions about the reopening of schools starting at 11 a.m. at the state capital.

The panel consists of a dozen members, including the education commissioner, the early childhood commissioner, the state epidemiologist and the president of Connecticut State Colleges and Universities.

 

Though schools are closed for the rest of the academic year, the goal is for summer camps to open on June 29, and summer school could start in July.