With the first day of classes approaching, St. Louis Public Schools is helping families complete registration, meet health requirements and address transportation and technology needs before students return Aug. 24.
Those preparations included the district’s “Ready for Day 1” Health and Resource Fair last week, where students received health screenings, dental exams and immunizations and families received assistance with school registration, transportation and technology.
“Every student deserves to begin the school year healthy, prepared and connected to the resources they need to succeed,” the SLPS Back to School Committee said in a press statement.
The district also has held outreach sessions with families, including a recent discussion with families in its English for Speakers of Other Languages program that offered interpretation in Arabic, Dari, Pashto, Spanish and Swahili.
The fair brought school services, health resources and community support together in one location before classes begin, district officials said.
District headquarters to fully reopen
All floors of the SLPS headquarters building are scheduled to reopen Aug. 17 as restoration work concludes.
Employees began returning to the building in phases beginning Aug. 3.
The Board of Education meeting held Tuesday and the July 28 meeting were at district headquarters in areas that had been cleared for use.
An SLPS employee contracted Legionnaires’ disease earlier this summer, prompting the district to test the building’s water system for Legionella, the bacteria that can cause the disease.
According to SLPS, its contractor has completed required water-system testing, sanitization and restoration work throughout the building.