THUNDER BAY - Local school boards could learn more this week on any possibilities for a regional reopening of schools across the province, but given the state of the pandemic, one local education official is not overly hopeful.
Ian MacRae, director of education with the Lakehead Public School Board, said he anticipates hearing from the province this week as to whether it will be looking at a regional approach to reopening schools before the end of the academic year.
“If they do that, we would be candidates for that, but there will be a lot of discussions prior to that,” he said. “Certainly with the variants of concerns and all the different variables, we are not particularly hopeful.”