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After a three-week hiatus from in-person learning — undertaken to address an anticipated post-holiday surge in coronavirus infections and districtwide staffing challenges — Newport-Mesa Unified School District is moving ahead with its plan to reopen middle and high school campuses on Monday.
Board members decided last month that secondary schools would return to distance learning at the start of the spring semester on Jan. 4 for a three-week period. The plan was to bring students back to campuses on Monday to resume learning under a partially in-person hybrid model.
With that date looming, and with Orange County coronavirus cases subsiding from recent record-breaking highs, Newport-Mesa Supt. Russell Lee-Sung on Friday announced middle and high school students were to report back to classes Monday.