UPDATE: After again hearing from parents upset about their plan to keep schools closed through the end of the year, Pawtucket School Committee members on Tuesday ultimately voted to gradually bring students back for in-person learning.
The vote came less than a month after school board members rejected the superintendent's reopening plan and voted to stay in distance learning through the final months of the 2020-2021 school year.
The "COVID-conditional" plan calls for grades 1-6 to come back beginning March 1, grades 7-8 to return March 15, and high school students to return to a hybrid model on March 29.
PAWTUCKET – The Pawtucket School Committee was set to host another discussion Tuesday night, Feb. 9, about whether to reopen schools again at some point this year, but Chairman Jay Charbonneau, pictured, said in advance that he didn’t expect the committee to change its previous votes to stay closed.