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Pilot program expands access to telehealth services in Maryland 08/26/2021 05:56pm • Maryland is experimenting with new ways to increase access to telehealth services in the hopes of removing barriers based on income, race, ethnicity and geographic location. The Department of Health is using $1.5 million in federal funding to pay for smartphones, tablets and high-speed internet a Maryland board of education votes to require masks in public schools 08/26/2021 05:36pm • The Maryland State Board of Education voted Thursday for an emergency regulation to require children and adults to wear masks in K-12 schools statewide to help stop the spread of COVID-19. Most of Maryland's 24 jurisdictions already have mandated masks in schools, five counties have not —- Carr Northern Va. Catholic schools back in class with full in-person learning 08/26/2021 04:15pm • Classes have resumed at dozens of Catholic schools around Northern Virginia, and learning that was mostly in-person last school year is informing COVID-19 protocols currently in place. "Things that were suggested like using seating charts. So, we always knew who was near whom, in the classroom, f What Daniel Gafford is focusing on during his offseason workouts 08/26/2021 01:33pm • What Gafford is working on this offseason originally appeared on NBC Sports WashingtonThe first thing Daniel Gafford did when his 2020-21 season ended was slow down. All players take their rest when they can, but for Gafford, it holds a different meaning.Remember that talk during the season abo Six Flags donates tickets to Prince George's County for vaccine incentives 08/26/2021 11:12am • Six Flags America has donated 4,000 tickets for free admission to its amusement park to Prince George's County for the Maryland county's efforts to get more residents vaccinated. Any county resident 12 and older who gets a COVID-19 vaccine at the Prince George's Sports & Learning Complex will COVID-19 outbreak closes closes some Amherst County schools 08/26/2021 10:47am • AMHERST, Va. — Amherst County officials say all public secondary schools are closing temporarily after a COVID-19 outbreak. Superintendent Rob Arnold says a person who tested positive and entered a building without notifying staff is the source of many positive cases. News outlets report tha Md. senators call on state education board to issue universal masking mandate 08/26/2021 06:31am • This content was republished with permission from WTOP’s news partners at Maryland Matters. Sign up for Maryland Matters’ free email subscription today. State senators sent a letter to the Maryland State Board of Education Wednesday ahead of its hastily-scheduled meeting Thursday, imploring Virginia health care systems to require vaccinations for staff 08/26/2021 05:06am • Two health care systems that provide care to people in Virginia are requiring their employees to be vaccinated. UVA Health and Sentara both announced the requirement Wednesday. “These vaccines will save lives, prevent unnecessary sickness and help us ensure we have the capacity to provide th Despite bus shortage, students return to Loudoun County classrooms 08/26/2021 04:28am • Many of 81,000 students in Loudoun County, Virginia, will be headed to their public school classrooms Thursday for the first time since March 2020, at the start of the coronavirus pandemic — the challenge will be getting them to school and back. In the midst of a nationwide shortage of bus driv As DC education board calls for flexibility, schools chancellor says city committed to in-person learning 08/25/2021 10:12pm • Five days before the start of school in D.C., the District's State Board of Education is urging Mayor Muriel Bowser to adjust the city's fall plans, calling for increased testing, a vaccine mandate for all students 16 and older and the possibility for schools to add a hybrid or fully virtual option. Prince William County schools not imposing staff COVID-19 vaccine requirement, for now 08/25/2021 08:30pm • This article was written by WTOP's news partner, InsideNoVa.com, and republished with permission. Sign up for InsideNoVa.com's free email subscription today. Days after Fairfax County Public Schools announced that all staff would need to be vaccinated for COVID-19 or subjected to weekly COVID tes Montgomery Co. workers must get vaccinated or tested by Sept. 18; Gayles on his decision 08/25/2021 04:42pm • Montgomery County, Maryland, public workers will have to get vaccinated against COVID-19 or submit to weekly testing starting Sept. 18. County Executive Marc Elrich at a news conference Wednesday announced the date for the requirement, which had been approved by the County Council earlier this mo Montgomery Co. schools won't have school resource officers when students return 08/25/2021 04:25pm • Public schools in Montgomery County, Maryland, will not have school resource officers (SROs) in them when classes begin on Monday. The school system said the position will be replaced by Community Engagement Officers, which will consist of police officers who patrol in areas around schools, but w Prince George's schools accept over 12K kids into virtual learning program 08/25/2021 02:27pm • Over 12,000 kids in kindergarten to sixth grade have been accepted into a virtual learning program in Prince George's County, Maryland. A spokeswoman with Prince George's County Public Schools told WTOP that the program is meant as a short-term measure while the school system awaits the approval City of Falls Church to require employees to be vaccinated 08/25/2021 01:59pm • The City of Falls Church, Virginia, will require its employees to be vaccinated against COVID-19 or receive regular testing starting this fall, the city said Wednesday. According to a news release, the city council expressed support for the vaccine requirement, especially as Fairfax County recent