After a meeting with a grassroots parents group that formed online, the Janesville School District has announced it���s halting all major decisions on whether to permanently close the flood-damaged Washington Elementary School.
Janesville parents have created "Save Washington School," an advocacy group and now a 750-member Facebook page of the same name. The group formed last week after Janesville School District officials begun debating whether to permanently close the flood damaged school on the city's west side.
As the Janesville School District efforts to pick up the pieces from what it is calling a "major catastrophe" from recent flooding, nonprofits in the city are working to find solutions for displaced by the Washington Elementary closure.
However, elementary students in Janesville will continue to learn in person, the school board decided during a special meeting Wednesday.
The school is closed this week after multiple staff members were required to quarantine because of possible exposure to COVID-19.
Harrison Elementary School has shut down face-to-face learning temporarily after COVID-19 exposure between staff left the school too understaffed to operate.
