{"id":15865,"date":"2021-04-07T00:51:46","date_gmt":"2021-04-07T00:51:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/?p=15865"},"modified":"2021-04-06T19:52:47","modified_gmt":"2021-04-06T19:52:47","slug":"covid-weighs-in-on-sun-valley-bcsd-leaders-decisions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/2021\/04\/07\/covid-weighs-in-on-sun-valley-bcsd-leaders-decisions\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID Weighs In On Sun Valley, BCSD Leaders\u2019 Decisions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Valley decision-making bodies continue to deal with the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. Blaine County&#8217;s average new case rate trended upward again last week and the positive rate has also jumped. That, along with COVID-19 variants being detected and confirmed in Idaho, means the risk level here officially ranks \u201chigh.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That\u2019s one reason at least the Sun Valley City Council voted to extend its mask-wearing mandate through June. There are a number of exemptions to the mandate, but violations bring with them a $100 fine.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Meanwhile, Blaine County School District trustees\u2014on a split 3\u20132 vote\u2014opted to not return to the five-day, in-person school week any time soon for its high- and middle-schoolers. Elementary schools will return to fully in-person learning April 12.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Trustees weighed the benefits of the resources offered on Fridays versus the benefits of a traditional classroom structure. In the end, trustees Lara Stone, Dan Turner and Gretchen Gorham decided one less change in a year of changes was for the best, especially considering the high number of students taking advantage of one-on-one instruction offered on Fridays.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Valley decision-making bodies continue to deal with the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. Blaine County&#8217;s average new case rate trended upward again last week and the positive rate has also jumped. That, along with COVID-19 variants being detected and confirmed in Idaho, means the risk level here officially ranks \u201chigh.\u201d That\u2019s one reason at least [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","_pvb_checkbox_block_on_post":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-15865","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-in-brief","7":"category-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15865"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15867,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15865\/revisions\/15867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}