Katie Lannan, State House News Service
BOSTON The state s education commissioner wants elementary school students back in the classroom full-time in April, as part of a plan to phase out remote learning that officials announced Tuesday, Feb. 23, as Massachusetts approaches the one-year anniversary of the initial March 2020 school closures intended to mitigate spread of COVID-19.
The announcements met quick pushback from the state s largest teachers union, which has been calling for earlier vaccine access for educators, and from school committees, which said decisions involved in re-openings are best handled at the local level.
In Provincetown, the public school system is currently at in-person schooling four days a week at all grade levels, Provincetown Schools Superintendent Suzanne Scallion said Wednesday, Feb. 24.
Nauset Supt. Tom Conrad will retire in June after close to three decades with the system. CHRONICLE FILE PHOTO
ORLEANS Tom Conrad’s long service to the Nauset Public Schools, first as principal of the high school and then as superintendent, will end with his retirement in June. Conrad shared the news at a joint meeting of the Nauset school committees Feb. 3.
“I have been truly blessed to be in public education over 43 years, 29 of which in the Nauset system,” he said. “I am totally grateful to be able to work in a community that values education at the highest level.” Conrad promised to work toward a smooth transition to a new leader for the system.