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For Wisconsin's rural Gale-Ettrick-Trempealeau School District, the COVID-19 pandemic has meant a series of adjustments — to students' and parents' schedules; to the way teachers conduct lessons; to the roles that support staff are filling.
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As Wisconsin's stay-at-home order continues, are people continuing to shelter in place? Location data tracking people's movement shows trends in how the pandemic has impacted where people go over time and if the state's public health order is working.
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Ten patients infected with COVID-19 will be treated with Remdesivir at Froedtert Hospital in Milwaukee as part of a nationwide study of its effectiveness.
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The closure of Wisconsin schools through the end of the year means kids are at home with parents who still go in to work, are working from home, or are not working at all, which has made both working and keeping up with schooling hard for parents.
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A survey found nearly a quarter of Division I college athletes experienced food insecurity in the last 30 days and almost 14% experienced homelessness in the previous year.
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Costs for school districts are going up because of the coronavirus, at the same time that schools' primary sources of funding are likely to take a hit.
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Milk production in Wisconsin held steady in 2019, despite a declining number of farms and cows in the state.
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The Wisconsin Department of Health Services released new data on how the state stacks up in terms of its “gating criteria”—the hard metric Gov. Tony Evers is using to determine whether healthcare infrastructure can handle reopening the state.
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The Wisconsin Supreme Court met virtually to hear the lawsuit filed by the Republican-controlled Legislature against Department of Health Services Secretary-Designee Andrea Palm, arguing she and the governor overstepped their authority.
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The UW System Board of Regents will consider a proposal dropping ACT requirements at all campuses except UW-Madison. The change is meant to make it easier for prospective freshman to enroll amid the COVID-19 pandemic.