Carbon County School District No. 2

Click here to view our latest Carbon County School District #2 Board Meetings held at the Platte Valley Community Center, Saratoga, WY.

BOCES Meeting- Monday, April 19, 2021, 3:45 p.m.

Regluar Board Meeting- Monday, April 19, 2021, 5:00 p.m.

STATE HEALTH OFFICER APPROVES CCSD#2 VARIANCE REQUEST – click for copy

Dr. Harrist, State Health Officer for Wyoming, approved CCSD#2’s Variance request, dated effective today, April 9, 2021. This means that face coverings will no longer be required at any Carbon 2 campus or event – not including buses. We will still observe social distancing as “much as possible”.

IT IS VITAL THAT PARENTS HELP US COMPLETE THE YEAR BY KEEPING ANY STUDENT WHO IS ILL AT HOME – with a concerted effort to keep them home if they experience any of the Covid symptoms. At this time, we have no students out on qurantine due to a positive result or direct contact with a positive individual, and there is only 1 active case in all of Carbon County. This precaution will prevent direct contact which may require quarantines if it occurs.

Again, I want to thank all of you for the support you have shown the School Staff during this challenging Covid year!

Dr. Jim Copeland, Supt.

UPDATE – received 04.09.2021 after original response regarding our variance request: I apologize, but after receiving the written response from Dr. Harrist approving our variance request (which can be seen in the above link), I received another email from CCPH that it did not include on buses where 6 ft of distance (as much as possible) could not be maintained. Here is her email:

Jim, Below is from Alexia (Dr. Harrist) regarding the federal order for masks on public transportation. Please let me know if you have any questions.

Thanks!

Amanda Brown, Carbon County Public Health

There is a federal order requiring that masks be worn on public transportation (https://www.cdc.gov/quarantine/pdf/Mask-Order-CDC_GMTF_01-29-21-p.pdf) and CDC provided a recent interpretation of this order to include school buses (https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/travelers/face-masks-public-transportation.html).

What I can say now is that while the Wyoming Department of Health can exempt a school from the state requirements, we do not have the authority to exempt them from any federal orders or requirements. So the school should be aware that the federal order is out there and the state cannot exempt them from that.

Dr. Harrist

CCSD2 District Teacher and Staff Member of the Year Nomination Process

Linked below are the nomination forms for this year’s District Teacher and Staff Member of the year! Fellow staff members, parents, students and community members are all welcome and invited to participate in this nomination process. Please consider nominating any individual you feel is worthy of either award, especially keeping in mind the extra work and efforts many took on due to the pandemic.

All nominations must be submitted by Thursday, April 29^th at 3:00 PM to be considered.

To nominate a teacher of the year for the district (only teachers eligible to win), please use this link.

To nominate a staff member of the year for the district (only non-teachers eligible to win), please use this link.

Thank you, and good luck to those nominated!

CCSD#2 Smart Start Reopening Plan – (Board Adopted on 07.23.2020; approved by WDE)

Individual School Smart Start Reopening Plans

Elk Mountain, Hanna & Medicine Bow Elementary Schools
Encampment K-12 School
HEM Jr./Sr. High School
Saratoga Elementary School
Saratoga Middle High School

Carbon County School District No. 2 was created in 1972 through the consolidation of school districts in the eastern half of Carbon County, Wyoming.

The District encompasses 4,000 square miles in southeastern Wyoming with the eastern border less than 100 miles from Cheyenne and the southern border beginning at the Colorado / Wyoming state line. Interstate 80 and the Union Pacific railroad bisects the District.

Schools are located in the communities of Elk Mountain, Encampment, Hanna, Medicine Bow and Saratoga. The District Administration Central Office is located in Saratoga, which is the largest of the five communities.