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Thumbs Up, Thumbs Down

By Staff | Oct 9, 2021

Editor’s note: During the course of a week, issues are covered that might not lend themselves to full editorial comment, but they are worthy of The Sunday Telegraph weighing in – thumbs up, thumbs down or neutral.

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THUMBS UP – Spirit Airlines, the first new airline at the Manchester-Boston Regional Airport in 17 years, for starting nonstop flights to Florida. It also has announced a new route to South Carolina. Spirit’s nonstop service to Fort Lauderdale/Hollywood International Airport and Orlando International Airport started on Thursday. Its nonstop service to Southwest Florida International Airport in Fort Myers and Tampa International Airport will start on Nov. 17 and Nov. 18, respectively. The airline also announced the addition of a seasonal, nonstop route to Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, starting April 20, 2022. “These new, direct, low-cost flights to Florida and South Carolina will give residents more options as they travel and will allow more visitors the opportunity to visit our beautiful state,” Manchester Mayor Joyce Craig said.

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Thumbs Up – A proposed rule that would severely limit remote instruction options for schools won’t go before the state Board of Education until November, but state officials already are advising districts to follow it. School districts currently can shift to fully remote or hybrid instruction for all students due to COVID-19 outbreaks. But under an administrative rule proposed by the Department of Education, schools would be required to provide in-person instruction five days per week except in cases of inclement weather or when a parent requests remote learning for an individual student. In an email to school leaders last month, Education Commissioner Frank Edelblut instructed schools on how to comply with what he called the “recently advanced” rules, without describing the current rules. Schools are permitted to offer remote instruction to individual students who have contracted COVID-19, are required to quarantine because a household contact is infected or have other family circumstances that prevent in-person attendance, he said.

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