WARREN, Ohio - The Warren City School system will continue full online, remote learning for two additional weeks, Superintendent Steve Chiaro announced on Thursday.

The district plans to return to hybrid learning on Thursday, January 21st, due to the continued community spread of COVID 19 in Warren and the impact it is having on staff and students in isolation or in quarantine.

The district posted the following tentative schedule for student learning on its website:

• All students PK-12 will remain on full online remote learning for two more weeks.
• Cohort B students will tentatively return on Thursday, January 21, 2021.
• Cohort A students will tentatively return on Monday, January 25, 2021.

Cohort A and B students may be combined to attend school four days per week as early as March 2021 dependent on health conditions and adult vaccinations in our community/with school employees.

“As we plan our return for students, we will continue over the next two weeks to continue plans for some student activities to phase in such as our 21st Century after school program, as well as some extra-curricular and co-curricular groups, including meetings, practices, and competition,” said Chiaro.

Food service operations will continue to provide meals to students during this time and when hybrid students return Warren Schools will revert to a feeding schedule as it was before moving to fully online/remote status.

“We are concerned with the overall health in our community. Many students and staff members continue to be in isolation or quarantine for contact or positive test results, with varied symptoms and long-term outcomes,” said Chiaro.

Chiaro says Warren Schools are preparing for a vaccination opportunity for staff in coordination with local health officials as soon as it becomes available.  He says he believes this will help students and staff return to the classroom as early as March.