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The Sarasota School Board voted 3-2 against paying $28,000 for Vermilion Education to examine a range of district policies.

School officials worry that cases are beginning to spread inside schools, and that quarantine numbers will soon "explode."

The policy lasts through Aug. 25, and will be considered again at a school board meeting next week.

Actual case counts are almost four times higher than the district's COVID dashboard shows, according to Sarasota school board chair Shirley Brown.

Dr. Juan Dumois is a pediatric infectious disease specialist who says the unpredictability of complications like multisystem inflammatory syndrome, or MIS-C, in children is a concern.

Dr. Patricia Emmanuel says once children 12 and up are able to get vaccinated in the coming months, that will be a "game-changer" for how schools proceed with coronavirus prevention measures.

Florida received its portion of the federal relief money in late March, and is supposed to disburse it within 60 days.

Addison Davis said the moves have been hard but necessary to avoid a district takeover by state education leaders.

The school district says it must make the cuts, or risk not being able to pay its staff by summer.

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