North Adams School Committee Votes for Remote Learning

The North Adams School Committee on Tuesday rejected a hybrid school reopening model to vote 3-2 to go full remote.

The decision to start school with the remote option was apparently influenced by a letter the School Committee members received from the North Adams Teachers Association expressing concern over re-entering the schools because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Committee member Tara Jacobs said she was not comfortable potentially exposing staff to the novel coronavirus in motioning to go with the remote option to start and later transition to a hybrid model.

Jacobs found support from committee members James Holmes, a former teacher, and Ian Bergeron.

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