Students wait outside at Woodland Middle School in East Point, Ga., Monday, March 9, 2020. The Fulton County School system has decided to close schools on Tuesday after a teacher tested positive with the coronavirus. The teacher was at Woodland Middle school on Friday. (Alyssa Pointer/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP)
March 9, 2020
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March 9, 2020 4:16 p.m.
Schools wrestle with fairness of closures during outbreak
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — When the new coronavirus surfaced at Saint Raphael Academy after a school group returned from a trip to Italy, officials decided to close the Rhode Island Catholic high school for two weeks.