David Robinson – New York State Team USA TODAY NETWORK from the D&C on 3/2/2020
“Schools and colleges in New York are racing to keep pace with the rapidly evolving public-health response to the coronavirus spreading from China across the globe. While federal officials warned that the deadly virus could cause “severe” disruptions in the USA, some colleges last week restricted and suspended study abroad programs in countries such as Italy and South Korea that are already seeing surges in coronavirus cases.
And K-12 school officials in New York and across the country braced for fallout if the outbreak spread widely in the U.S. Administrators have updated contingency plans to limit disruptions to children’s education, preparing for everything from quarantines to school closures seeking to contain the virus. “