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Portland Schools consider hybrid model

Portland Schools consider hybrid model

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(AP)— The superintendent of schools in Maine’s largest city is recommending a hybrid learning model of in-person and online instruction to begin the school year.

Portland Public Schools Superintendent Xavier Botana wants elementary school students to attend school in-person two days per week for the start of the school year, the Portland Press Herald reported. The goal would be to bring them back to school five days per week by the middle of October.

Under Botana’s plan, middle school students and high school freshmen would attend in-person classes two days a week. Older high school students would mostly take classes remote.

Students throughout the district will also have the option of remote-only education this year.

The plan was slated to go before the Board of Public Education on Tuesday.

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