The school superintendent for the Savannah area says surging coronvirus infections have made it unsafe to reopen classes to students this fall.
School Superintendent Ann Levett said Friday she plans to ask the Savannah-Chatham County school board next week to continue online classes for the system's 37,000 students when school resumes next month. Levett leads one of Georgia's largest school districts outside metro Atlanta. School officials statewide are grappling with whether they can safely resume in-person classes as COVID-19 infections and hospitalizations are soaring more than two months after Gov. Brian Kemp began reopening shuttered businesses.