District preps for 2020-21 school year

Whitehall School District Officials have been busy in anticipation of the 2020-21 school year.

Superintendent Hannah Nieskens said a lot of planning has been in the works in conjunction with the Jefferson County Health Department – with the plans for a regular length school day.

Among the changes at the school at the start of school will include block scheduling for grades 6 to 12. According to Nieskens, kids would have three to four classes a day instead of seven with the length of the class changing from 50 minutes to 100.

Nieskens said they have hired an additional daytime custodian...