Amherst regional school district scrambling to comply with state mandate for full time in-person learning Updated Mar 10, 2021; AMHERST – The regional school districts here is now scrambling to comply with a state mandate, announced Tuesday, requiring full time in-person learning for all students in grades K-12. Except for seven days in October, in kindergarten and grade 1, the Amherst regional and Amherst school districts have been all-remote since Sept. 15 when classes began. Amherst school board governing grades K-6, and the four-town Amherst-Pelham regional district – grades 7-12 – are among the 20% of public school systems in the state that remain all-remote, according to state data; other school systems are in-person, or had instituted a hybrid model, with two days or more per week of in-person instruction.