News

As we look forward to the quickly approaching 2020-21 school year, the priority of NCS is the health and safety of our children, families and staff.  The NCS management team continues to work on a reopening plan that aligns with Federal, State, and local guidelines from the CDC and Public Health, is responsive to the current situation and that also meets the needs of our staff, families, community, and program requirements. These plans include risk assessments for our locations, training for staff, and procedures for daily symptom checks, physical distancing, and ongoing hygiene, cleaning and disinfecting to maintain healthy operations.

NCS Management has developed plans for operating our centers and home based programs under 3 different scenarios:

• normal operation;
• hybrid operations of some in person and some virtual services;
• and all virtual services.

At this time, we anticipate that all programs will operate under a hybrid or virtual model to begin the fall.  NCS class sizes will be reduced to 10 children for preschool classrooms for the foreseeable future. The NCS ERSEA team has been contacting families to determine family need and preference for program types.

Understanding that the classroom community is made of children, staff and families, we are asking staff and families to agree to keep their community safe and healthy by following the local, state and national health requirements.

NCS plans are subject to change as we receive new information from our funders and direction from Public Health based on changing conditions in our communities.

We appreciate the trust and patience of parents and staff as we work through this challenge.