Santikos Enterprises plans test its roughly 300 employees for the coronavirus every week through a partnership with Community Labs, a nonprofit formed by several local philanthropic leaders. As COVID-19 testing ramps up in a San Antonio area school district, some parents are skeptical. And rural school districts outside San Antonio are eliminating their remote instruction options after seeing staggering numbers of virtual learners log absences and fail classes.

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