Lucero: Stamford school buildings to close for one month FacebookTwitterEmail A positive message is displayed as students enter school on the first day of the 2020-2021 school year at Stamford High School in Stamford, Conn. Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2020.Tyler Sizemore / Hearst Connecticut Media STAMFORD — Stamford school buildings will close and the district will switch to full-time distance learning for all students starting Dec. 21, Superintendent Tamu Lucero announced Friday. The period of distance learning is expected to last one month, with schools reopening again on Jan. 19, Lucero said in a letter sent to public school staff and families. “Looking ahead to the upcoming weeks, we unfortunately anticipate our current staffing challenges, in both the Hybrid and the Distance Teaching and Learning models, to become increasingly more difficult,” Lucero wrote. “In order to ensure continuity and quality of teaching and learning, we are going to temporarily transition to 100 percent Distance Teaching and Learning.”