Utah schools rely on remote learning amid COVID-19 surge, staffing shortages

Just hours before the pause on Utah’s Test to Stay program, hundreds of students were tested in schools, while others decided to go remote.

Ben Horsley with the Granite School District says they’re seeing a 20 percent infection rate with the new protocols, in the beginning of the program, they rarely saw any cases, so this is a big difference”

Late in the school day Thursday, the Test to Stay program was put on pause.