Burlington schools to resume 100% in-person learning Feb. 8
That means eight hours a day, five days a week.
The Burlington School Board's unanimous decision Friday to pivot from the hybrid model it has been operating under since the start of the school year to 100% in-person came shortly after Gov. Kim Reynolds signed into law a bill requiring that schools offer a full in-person option.
"A bill was passed yesterday and signed today into law that's going to require us to give parents the option to return 100% if they choose," school board president Joel Sieren said Friday during an emergency board meeting ahead of the vote. "In conversations we've had previously with the administration team, there's no way that we're going to be able to pull off both hybrid and meeting this law at the same time."