{"id":52706,"date":"2021-11-04T12:38:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-04T19:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/kentwood-high-classroom-closed-due-to-covid-19\/"},"modified":"2021-11-04T17:40:12","modified_gmt":"2021-11-05T00:40:12","slug":"kentwood-high-classroom-closed-due-to-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/kentwood-high-classroom-closed-due-to-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"No classroom closed at Kentwood High due to COVID-19 | Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There was no classroom closure at Kentwood High School in Covington due to COVID-19 after all.<\/p>\n<p>The Kent School District on Thursday evening, Nov. 4 corrected its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.k12.wa.us\/Page\/12988\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"school\" rel=\"noopener\">COVID-19 School Status Map<\/a> and removed Kentwood as a school with a classroom closure. The district had listed the closure as starting Nov. 1.<\/p>\n<p>Kentwood staff read a story posted earlier Thursday on the Kent Reporter website and reached out to district staff to correct the information.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Kentwood staff saw the story and worked with our health services team to clarify the dates of infection and exposure of the person with a positive case, and a classroom was not closed based on that information,&rdquo; said district spokesperson Melissa Laramie in a Nov. 4 email.<\/p>\n<p>Laramie said she has corrected the website&rsquo;s COVID-19 School Status Map.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Latest COVID-19 numbers<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Since Oct. 1, the district has had 93 students with COVID-19, with 16 cases still active as of Nov. 1, according to the Kent School District COVID-19 Reporting Dashboard.<\/p>\n<p>Twenty-three staff members have had COVID-19, with four active cases.<\/p>\n<p>The district has more than 23,000 students at 43 schools.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kent School District corrects error on School Status Map <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":212,"featured_media":52707,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-52706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52706"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/212"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52706\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52706"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=52706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}