Cotter Public Schools tighten access procedures due to COVID-19

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A case of two school administrators in Arkansas being stricken by COVID-19 has resulted in procedural changes for admittance to the buildings of the Cotter Public School District.

Superintendent Vanessa Thomas-Jones says the district tightened its procedures this week, after the superintendent and assistant superintendent in the Nashville School District were among eight employees infected with the coronavirus in southern Arkansas. The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reports the district’s assistant superintendent is hospitalized on a ventilator in a Little Rock hospital.

Discussion among her peers led to the changes, Thomas-Jones says.


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The changes are simply to limit unscreened persons from entering the building, Thomas-Jones explains.


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Thomas-Jones says signage has been added to all office entrances in the district, which provides a phone number for assistance. A school employee will come out to the entrance to assist and/or screen the visitor, if it necessary for the individual to enter the facility. Face coverings will be required to enter the building.

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