Wisconsin’s academic calendar provides an advantage with its late start, and local districts are taking advantage. Sturgeon Bay School Board President Teri Hooker says that lessons learned from states like Georgia in dealing with COVID-19 haven’t necessarily changed the conversation about reopening, but they are insightful nonetheless.

Sturgeon Bay School District has held several meetings in the past couple weeks, hammering out criteria to help determine which mode of learning is appropriate given infection rates locally. The Packerland Conference recommended student-athletes play contact fall sports this year, but Sturgeon Bay has already moved to have them take place in the spring under an alternate schedule approved by the WIAA earlier this month at its Board of Control meeting.