Multiple Central Florida school districts cancel all field trips involving air travel
Students in multiple Central Florida school districts will not be taking any field trips that require traveling by airplane.
School officials in Orange, Volusia, Seminole, Brevard, Osceola, and Lake, counties have canceled the trips as cases of the coronavirus are steadily increasing across the United States.
The move to cancel the trips was recommended to districts by the Florida Commissioner of Education, according to a new release from Volusia County Schools.
Districts and school staff will be working with parents and travel companies on cancellation arrangements, officials said.
The cancellation is of all trips through the end of the school year.
At an Orange County school board meeting Tuesday night, Superintendent Dr. Barbara Jenkins gave an update to staff and parents about the district's latest efforts to combat coronavirus.
District leaders said the janitorial staff is being told to wipe down every surface at schools every day.
The recommendations from state officials change daily and the school board said the district is positioned well if classes must be taught digitally.
Thousands of Florida's teachers would take a six hour course and be trained on a program called Florida Virtual Schools.
Jenkins also said staff and students should only self-quarantine if they have flu-like symptoms and a known exposure to someone with coronavirus.