Superintendent Matt Degner along with several other administrative members from schools across the district attended the school board meeting Nov. 10 to update the board, parents, students and staff on the return-to-learn program. After hours of discussion, presentations, and questions, the board voted to start the 100% online learning model across all ICCSD schools on Nov. 16.

The decision to wait until the end of the week is primarily to give parents a heads-up to make adjustments in child care if needed, as well as to give teachers more prep time to make sure students are still learning while being fully online.

“It’s not where people want to be, and it’s not where we want to be, and Iowa City has sometimes been seen as an outlier here in our approach to this,” said ICCSD Interim Superintendent Matt Degner. “This is a significant problem in the state of Iowa, and it’s not just an Iowa City issue.”