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View Comments Following the most challenging year schools have had to endure, a record number of Montgomery Public School students are set to return to classrooms for the district s Launch into Learning summer program. Starting June 7, more than 12,000 students will show for summer school, hosted across 31 of the district s schools. That rate is far higher than previous years participation, at about 2,500 students. That rate also represents the most students that have been in Montgomery s public schools since the coronavirus pandemic began with about 7,000 of the district s 28,000 returning for face-to-face instruction during the past year. The district has hired more than 400 teachers to run the eight-week program, and is still hoping to hire more. The district is paying summer school teachers $50 per hour. ....