COVID-19 cases at local schools double over the past two weeks

Tippecanoe School Corporation on Wednesday fully moved to remote learning for at least two weeks, while others are still monitoring the situation.

To remote learning for at least two weeks.

The number of covid-19 cases at tsc and other local school districts has doubled over the past two weeks.

As news 18's joe paul reports, the surge is making it diffcult for some schools to keep their doors open.

<scott hanback: "what we were really seeing was a staff shortage."

So many bus drivers, staff and teachers at tippecanoe school corporation are quarantined... ...the district moved to remote learning for at least two weeks, says superintendent scott hanback.

Scott hanback: "we had school bus drivers that were doing two and three and sometimes four bus routes a day, which were causing late buses."

Hanback says the number of students and staff quarantined is in the hundreds.

Scott hanback: "we had many staff and teachers on quarantine protocol, some positive cases even, and we didn't have enough substitute teachers to cover."

Covid-19 cases at local school districts have doubled during a surge over the past two weeks.

Lafayette school corporation is also seeing staff shortages.

Superintendent les huddle says the workforce is fearful of contracting the virus.

Les huddle: "the shortages are real and it's in all aspects of our organization: the number of substitutes we can find, the number of bus drivers, the number of food service workers, the number of paras.

We have many open positions."

West lafayette community school corporation superintendent rocky killion says the spread is happening during social interactions after school hours and over the weekend.

Rocky killion: "we need to all be very cautious and take precautionary measures to ensure we're keeping everyone safe, and if that continues to bubble up then that will continue to affect not only the public schools but everything we're doing within our society."

Reporting in tippecanoe county, joe paul, news 18.

Huddle and killion say several classrooms have moved to e- learning because of quarantine protocols.

They say they'll keep an eye on the situation as they also consider district-wide remote learning.

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