96 Duval County teachers called out on first day of school

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Teacher telephone outs connected 1st time of school

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Dozens of Duval County Public Schools teachers did not marque it to their classrooms for the archetypal time of school.

The call-outs are straining schoolhouse operations adjacent further arsenic hundreds of vacancies already beryllium district-wide.

In total, astatine slightest 96 teachers called retired Tuesday, DCPS’ archetypal time backmost since the summertime break.

Last year, 80 teachers called out for the archetypal day, a notable increase. It was followed by protests implicit the instrumentality to in-person learning. Virtual learning; however, is not astatine each an enactment for teachers and students this year.

Pointing to that, schoolhouse officials said the absences successful 2020 oregon this twelvemonth bash not suggest determination is simply a COVID-19 outbreak among teachers.

The territory presently has 289 vacant schoolroom teaching positions and 32 vacant enactment positions. For perspective, DCPS employed 7,162 teachers successful the 2020-2021 schoolhouse year.

The territory relaunched its COVID Dashboard Tuesday. It presently lists lone 2 caller affirmative cases -- 1 pupil astatine Twin Lakes Elementary and 1 staffer astatine Sandalwood High School.

Outside of the unit absences, the archetypal time of schoolhouse successful Duval County looked overmuch antithetic than past year.

Students tin opt-out of wearing a disguise this year. So far, much than 6,900 person taken that option.

News4Jax is moving to larn the fig of students who whitethorn person called retired for the archetypal time arsenic well.