PENNSYLVANIA - With coronavirus running rampant, the state’s largest teachers union demanded that school districts in nearly two dozen counties with the worst outbreaks tell students to temporarily learn from home.The state recommends virtual instruction in counties with a “substantial” level of community transmission — a number that has been rising rapidly as the virus surges statewide and across the nation.
Twenty-three Pennsylvania counties were deemed to have substantial levels of community spread for two consecutive weeks in the state’s latest weekly survey.Some Pennsylvania districts have gone their own way in spite of the state guidance, offering classroom instruction five days a week or using a hybrid model in which students go to.