A few takeaways from @HISDSupe 's convo on @HoustonPubMedia 's Town Square w/ @ErnieOnTV
- > HISD has gotten about additional 30K students to log onto virtual school, up to about 192K students from 162K on the first day of school

That's still about 15K students short of HISD's projected enrollment of 207K for the year and if enrollment remains low when the official count is taken later this year, it could create a financial risk

Lathan says HISD has a goal of Sept 28th to start bringing back thousands of employees and that's when they'll launch a third party app to help with contact tracing. Right now "everything is still manual"

"​Every time I see something on TV, see large rallies of people gathering, I get frustrated. I'll be very honest with you because all I see is them preventing me from getting our students back on Oct 19th. But we are prepared" - Lathan said on Town Square

Lathan says all 10 HISD facilities that reported positive COVID-19 cases last week have been deep cleaned and have reopened.

Lathan says they're moving forward with plans to return to in-person learning in October, but she's concerned and preparing if there's another coronavirus outbreak in the area