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Dec 28, 2020 ST. PAUL (AP) New state guidance that will enable Minnesota’s youngest learners to head back to school next month is getting cheers from urban districts, jeers from rural schools and a mixed response from teachers. Within hours of Gov. Tim Walz’s announcement that elementary schools soon can operate at full capacity, even as coronavirus case rates remain high, some of the state’s largest school districts said they’d move as quickly as possible. Anoka-Hennepin, Osseo, Elk River and Robbinsdale all said they would resume a full-time, in-person schedule for grades 2 and under on Jan. 19, with grades 3 to 5 joining them two weeks later. ....
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Minnesota’s two largest school districts have already announced plans to welcome their youngest learners back to the classroom early next year, and other districts are scrambling to finalize their return-to-in-person plans. St. Paul Public Schools has been in almost full distance learning mode since Gov. Tim Walz ordered schools to close their buildings in March. Now, the district is planning to allow all pre-kindergarten through second-grade students to return to full-time in-person learning starting Monday, Feb. 1. Two weeks later, district schools will also open their doors to third, fourth and fifth grade students for full-time in-person learning. “It is not going to be without work. We’re going to need to communicate and work once again in new and different ways,” Joe Gothard, the district’s superintendent, said in a video announcement posted on the district’s website. ....