Schools to resume hybrid education

CLOVIS — Clovis and Melrose school officials announced that they would resume hybrid education the week of Jan. 18, assuming they are still cleared to do so by existing health orders.

Melrose Schools will return to hybrid mode for prekindergarten through sixth grade on Jan. 18, while Clovis Municipal Schools will resume hybrid mode Jan. 19 for preschool through fifth grade. The Clovis district is off for the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday.

Both districts shifted to remote mode following the Thanksgiving holiday, and in December the Public Education Department put all public schools into remote learning mode through Jan. 15 with concerns about post-holiday COVID-19 spikes.

Roosevelt County schools will remain in remote learning mode until the county moves into “green” mode, meaning less than eight daily cases per 100,000 residents and 5% of lower test positivity over a two-week period.

Counties are green if they meet both metrics, yellow if they meet one and red if they meet neither. Both Curry and Roosevelt counties are in the red, but Curry was briefly in the green in September and the PED has allowed Curry schools to remain in hybrid learning. However, an individual school building can be moved back to remote learning if it has four rapid responses inside of a 14-day period.