CONWAY — Schools will offer in-person face-to-face instruction five days a week during this COVID-19 pandemic.
That was the message state Department of Education Commissioner Frank Edelblut shared with superintendents across New Hampshire last Thursday in an email titled, “Instructional Guidance for Responding to COVID in the Learning Environment.”
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