Allen County school districts' reopening plans becoming clearer

East Allen County Schools already has a plan in place, with the ability to be flexible if COVID-19 forces them to change plans.

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School districts across the region are trying to figure out their plans to safely reopen in august even as information about the covid-19 virus changes almost daily.fox 55 caleb saylor is live in northwest allen county with an update as to what some school districts in the county are doing.caleb?hunter, we learned tonight at the northwest allen county school meeting that about a third of the parents have no problems sending their children back to school while about a quarter are leaning ?against?

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The vast majority though are waiting on more information a luxury not afforded to school districts trying to plan ahead.

As summer moves along, more school districts are developing plans to reopen safely.

A topic that came up duri northwest allen school board meeting.

Superintendent chris himsel says the results of the survey sent out to families show about a third have no problems reopening while 25% say theye leaning towards not sending their kids back next year overall showing there still questions to be answered hat was the primary pur of the survey was to try and collect some questions so when we e meeting with our health experts here locally, we can ask them the questions they have on their mind.

We want to makee asking the right questions.

Questions like will social distancing take place in classrooms will likely have an answer of no, but himsel says the plan will include some level of increased cleaning, social distancing, and mask wearing east allen county schools published their plan on their website today.

They plan to do employee health screenings, encourage those entering the school to wear a mask, and bulk up cleaning and disinfecting procedures, among other steps to help limit the spread of covid-19 east allen saysubject plans is to change as additional guidance becomes available from the center for disease control, the allen county department of health, the gove executive orders, the indiana department of education, or the eacs school board or administration.

Most districts, including nort the allen, that plan as well, to have a plan set, but keep it fluid in case new information about the virus forces districts to change everything.

Etween now very gust, it likely they will come across and learn more information about how it spreads and how is affects people, and that information will inform our plan so that we put together better plans that keep kids and adults safer, those people who are in our schools, working each day.

?th no word yet on the reopening plans from southwest allen and fort wayne community schools, but representatives tell me they continue to work daily to come up with the best plan for their district.

Reporting live in fort wayne, caleb saylor, fox 55 news