Health

In some metro school districts, students will be back in the classroom for traditional instruction. But the school environment will be anything but traditional with mask requirements and social distancing guidelines enforced. Dr. Sharon Stoolman, a pediatric hospitalist in Omaha, says students and their families should be preparing and practicing right now to make their transition into the new year as smooth as possible.

Westside Community Schools is planning to institute status levels for its students and ask families to screen students' temperatures as it returns to a full-day Monday-Friday school year.

Omaha Public Schools has released the results of a survey it sent out to families on Wednesday, June 17.

Iowa school officials have released guidelines that allow schools to reopen to normal activities as of July 1 without health checks before entering the building, no required face coverings, and no required social distancing.