All Massachusetts school districts must send elementary and middle school students back to class five days a week by April 28, state education officials say.
A new memo from Elementary and Secondary Education Commissioner Jeff Riley lays out a timeline for the return to full-time, in-person learning, setting the expectation that middle and elementary schoolers will be back in classrooms next month.
The memo, a copy of which was posted online by the Massachusetts Association of School Committees, sets an April 5 date for elementary schoolers to be learning in-person five days a week and an April 28 date for middle schoolers.
Riley said that the details and timing for returning high school students to classrooms will be announced in April, with at least two weeks notice for districts.
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