WASHINGTON – Public Schools in Washington, D.C., will partially reopen their buildings to select students beginning Nov.
9 in a multi-pronged approach as the nation's capital struggles to return to normalcy amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Washington Mayor Muriel Bowser had planned to start the 2020 school year offering a hybrid model combining distance learning with two days a week of in-school instruction.
But the city was forced to abandon that plan in late summer amid strong safety objections from the teacher’s union.Bowser said Monday there was “a real urgency” to get students back to school buildings safely.
She has repeatedly cited the schools issue as a fundamental step in the District's return from a pandemic-fueled shutdown. “We.