Dallas ISD is planning for the upcoming school year. | Shuttershock
The Dallas Independent School District (ISD) is preparing for the upcoming school year despite not yet knowing what the Texas Education Agency has planned in terms of COVID-19 precautions and how school funding will be calculated.
“We don’t have rules yet, but we know we need to be ahead of it,” Stephanie Elizalde, chief of school leadership at Dallas ISD, told the Dallas Morning News. “A district this size, if we’re going to order something as simple as masks, well, we’re 154,000 kids plus 23,000 employees. That order is not something we can put in on Aug. 1, and expect it to arrive by the first day of school. Other districts may be able to wait and hit pause; we cannot.”
In addition to planning specific safety measures for face-to-face instruction, Dallas ISD is discussing remote learning and three different models incorporating a combination of both in-person and virtual instruction.
“Until we get direction from the state, we’re going to keep having to plan several versions of this,” Dallas ISD Superintendent Michael Hinojosa told The Dallas Morning News.
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