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FRAMINGHAM – All Stapleton Elementary Therapeutic Learning Center Staff will be remote for the rest of the week, announced the Framingham Public Schools tonight, December 2.

On Tuesday, the District said a community member had tested positive for COVID. Tonight, the District said a “Stapleton community member is presumed positive.”

“As such all Stapleton TLC staff will work remotely for the remainder of the week on Thursday, December 4 and Friday, December 5. All other staff can report o the building as regularly scheduled,” said the District in an email to staff tonight, December 2.

The district said in an email, individuals who were “identified as close contacts of the person with COVID-19 have been notified and instructed to remain home in quarantine.

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Those individuals received a phone call from the district.

The district considers close contact to be within 6 feet of the person for at least 15 cumulative 15 minutes with a 24 hour period.

Last month, the Framingham Public School district announced a COVID dashboard.

There have been cases at Barbieri, Blocks, Fuller, King, Potter Road, Framingham High, Stapleton, and Wilson.

On November 29, the District announced due to positive cases and quarantining members, King and Explorers staff will work remotely until a return to the building on December 7.

It was announced this week that Ashland High School will go remote immediately.

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Most of the district’s 9,000+ students are attended school virtually.

Framingham Public School returned a couple hundred students in October with the highest needs to their physical classrooms.

On November 5, roughly another 300 students returned to the classroom, including more students at BLOCKS preschool.

The Superintendent of Schools announced last month, that about 2,000 high needs students would NOT return to the classrooms in December – this is phase III.

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Susan Petroni is the former editor for SOURCE. She is the founder of the former news site, which as of May 1, 2023, is now a self-publishing community bulletin board. The website no longer has a journalist but a webmaster.