COVID plans discussed at Ironwood Schools

IRONWOOD — In what will likely be the first of many such votes to come, the Ironwood Area Schools’ board of education approved the district’s Extended Continuity of Learning Plan.  The plan contains a fair amount of overlap with the similar plans the district has passed since the start of the pandemic in March.  The document lays out how the district will educate students if they are forced to stop in-person learning again due to the coronavirus pandemic.  The big difference between the plan and the policies the district already put in place is the focus on how students would be assessed if in-person learning can’t take place.  The state of Michigan is requiring the board review and reaffirm the plan each month. The document has already been approved by the Gogebic-Ontonagon Intermediate School District.