CONWAY — While students, teachers and parents are hoping April 3 will signal the end of remote learning, local and state officials are cautioning that my not be the case and that people need to be prepared to be out of the classroom longer than that due to the COVID 19 virus.
Gov. Chris Sununu announced March 15 all public schools had to close and move to distance learning for the next three weeks, but Superintendent Kevin Richard and staff had been preparing for that possibility.
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