Students in seven public health units will be returning to the classroom today, but online learning will remain in place for the rest of southern Ontario schools until further notice.
That includes the Simcoe County District School Board, the Simcoe-Muskoka Catholic District School Board and schools in Muskoka for the Trillium Lakelands District school Board.
Based on the most recent data and the advice of the Chief Medical Officer of Health, elementary and secondary schools in the following Public Health Units (PHUs) will be permitted to resume in-person learning on January 25, 2021:
- Grey Bruce Health Unit
- Haliburton, Kawartha, Pine Ridge District Health Unit
- Hastings and Prince Edward Counties Health Unit
- Kingston, Frontenac and Lennox & Addington Health Unit
- Leeds, Grenville and Lanark District Health Unit
- Peterborough Public Health
- Renfrew County and District Health Unit
This means that all schools in the following schools boards will resume in-person learning on January 25:
- Limestone District School Board
- Renfrew County District School Board
- Hastings and Prince Edward District School Board
- Bruce-Grey Catholic District School Board
- Renfrew County Catholic District School Board
- Algonquin and Lakeshore Catholic District School Board
- Bluewater District School Board
Some additional school boards span across multiple PHUs and may have some schools that resume in-person learning on January 25 and other schools that will continue to teach remotely. The local PHU should be contacted on the status of schools in these boards:
- Kawartha Pine Ridge District School Board
- Trillium Lakelands District School Board
- Upper Canada District School Board
- Catholic District School Board of Eastern Ontario
- Peterborough Victoria Northumberland and Clarington Catholic DSB
- Conseil des écoles publiques de l`Est de l`Ontario
- Conseil scolaire catholique Providence
- Conseil scolaire catholique MonAvenir
- Conseil scolaire de district catholique du Centre-Est de l’Ontario
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