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Wisconsin health officials are creating a statewide COVID-19 vaccination schedule for school employees, in an effort to prioritize underserved communities. Wisconsin Educators And Childcare Workers Next In Line For Vaccine, Beginning March 1 Education and childcare workers are eligible for the vaccine beginning March 1 . Department of Health Services Deputy Secretary Julie Willems Van Dijk said Thursday that local health departments are submitting school vaccination plans to the state. “We will analyze the plans and plot them out on a master schedule for about the next six weeks or so — about when each school district and health department will be assured they’ll receive vaccine to vaccinate their educators,” Willems Van Dijk said. The state isn’t distinguishing between schools that are open in-person or virtual. But it will prioritize school districts with high numbers of low-income students or students of color. “These are populations of students who, they and their families have