A Milwaukee-based conservative authorized and advocacy agency has issued a reminder to Kenosha County Public Well being, space faculty leaders and oldsters Thursday that the legislation forbids native well being officers from closing colleges.
The Wisconsin Institute for Regulation & Liberty’s “Open Letter to the Kenosha County Well being Division, and to Faculty Boards, Faculty Directors, and Mother and father in Kenosha County” was written in response to reviews from dad and mom all through Kenosha County, who had been reportedly informed at latest public conferences and through letters from faculty directors that the Well being Division would shut a college if the COVID-19 an infection price reached 3 % inside a constructing.
“Lower than six months in the past, the Wisconsin Supreme Court docket held that native well being officers haven’t any energy to shut colleges,” Luke Berg, WILL’s deputy counsel, stated Thursday. “The Kenosha County Well being Division could make suggestions, provide steerage, and assist colleges navigate the pandemic. However they can not shut colleges.”
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One latest doc from the Well being Division, shared by a number of faculty districts, states that sure “indicators will set off a transition to at-home studying for all workers and college students in a college or the district.” This was interpreted by some as a mandate as soon as a sure threshold is reached.
“We write this letter to remind the Well being Division, in addition to native faculty boards, faculty directors, and oldsters in Kenosha County and elsewhere, of the Wisconsin Supreme Court docket’s resolution this summer season (in a case introduced by WILL), holding that ‘native well being officers should not have the facility to shut colleges,’” the letter from the nonprofit WILL reads.
