East Lansing Public School board votes to bring back in-person classes Photo by Lauren Snyder | The State News The East Lansing Public School board voted to certify the Extended Continuity of Learning Plan in its Jan. 25 meeting to bring students back to in-person instruction by the beginning of March if they so choose. Parents may choose to continue remote learning. After over an hour of parents, teachers and students voicing their opinions and concerns to the board, this plan was certified in a vote of six-to-one, with board trustee Debbie Walton being the only vote against. An initial plan to phase students back into in-person instruction was changed when East Lansing Public School teachers began getting the COVID-19 vaccination on Jan. 18. This new plan, presented by East Lansing Superintendent Dori Leyko, entailed bringing preschool and elementary schoolers back to in-person instruction on Feb. 22 and middle and high schoolers back on March 1.