Around 20,000 students in the Detroit Public Schools Community District are expected back in classrooms on Monday.
DPSCD suspended in-person learning when COVID-19 cases spiked in November. Now that community positivity rates have dropped well below 5%, the district decided it was time to re-open its doors, Superintendent Nikolai Vitti said.
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“I think it’s a sign, optimistically, of moving closer to the other side of this pandemic, and moving back to what we are used to doing, which is working with our students in person,” Vitti said. “But it’s going to take awhile for Detroit to get where I think other districts will be with in-person learning, because we still have work to do with reassuring our families that it’s safe, and bringing our teachers back.”