LAS VEGAS (AP) - Instruction resumes Monday in Las Vegas-area schools, but most students won’t be in classrooms.
Nearly all the more than 330 campuses in the sprawling Clark County School District will return to the distance-learning programs adopted last March due to the coronavirus pandemic.
The district is among the largest in the U.S., with more than 300,000 students, and a Las Vegas Review-Journal report found that most of the other nine have restored at least some in-person instruction.
Two other districts have stuck with remote learning: Los Angeles and Chicago.
Clark County school trustees are approaching a decision Jan. 14 about whether to adopt a phased-transition timetable for reopening Las Vegas-area campuses, even with COVID-19 case numbers continuing to surge.
An agreement last month between district administrators and the teachers union calls for a phased return to in-person classes, starting with preschool through third graders.
District Superintendent Jesus Jara has said a date for resuming in-class instruction will be depend on the coronavirus pandemic, and the best-case scenario could see some students in class in February.
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