CONWAY — Did the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention copy the SAU 9 School Re-entry Plan? Probably not.
But it’s uncanny how closely the CDC’s recently released guidelines resemble what a local 50-member committee developed for SAU 9 last summer.
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