COVID-19

With two South Orange-Maplewood School District schools (Clinton and South Mountain) already returned to…

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Concerned parents from various schools in the South Orange-Maplewood School District have taken to the public comments portion of township meetings in both Maplewood and South Orange, as well as at the Board of Education, expressing frustration with communications around COVID-19 case reporting, outbreaks and protocols.

At least three classrooms in Clinton Elementary School are experiencing COVID-19 outbreaks, prompting the school to institute a temporary indoor and bus mask mandate, Maplewood officials confirmed.

The South Orange-Maplewood Board of Education’s student representative used his update at Monday’s BOE…

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A district email stated that “Although our ‘indoor mask guidelines’ will remain in place, for future consideration, we believe it is important to add the voice of our PreK family community to this important discussion.”

COVID cases have increased in Maplewood in March, but are not yet surging at…

While the South Orange-Maplewood School District moved to optional indoor masking for grades K-12 effective March 14, an indoor mask mandate remains in place for preschool students.

This story was first published on March 15, 2022. “Newsies” performances originally scheduled for…