By Brett Boese

Post-Bulletin, Red Wing MN 

RED WING -- Kris Klassen, school nurse in Red Wing, planned to have school-based H1N1 vaccination clinics on Nov. 16 and 17, but she learned last week that the she will be getting a much smaller supply of the vaccine than she expected.

"Each county was given just a few hundred doses, and we need thousands of doses," she said during Monday's Red Wing School Board meeting.

The district was hit particularly hard by cases of H1N1 about two weeks ago, when 100 students were out -- or about 14 percent of the enrollment -- and roughly 80 students exhibited H1N1 symptoms. Burnside Elementary School also saw a spike last week, according to Klassen, while Sunnyside has remained relatively unaffected.

School officials advise ill students to stay home until they've gone 24 hours without a fever.

In other school board news, the district continues to negotiate teachers contracts. Meetings began in May, and the state-mandated deadline for approval is Feb. 15.

The sides have cleared up language not related to financial issues and continue to work on retiree health insurance benefits.

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