Nearly half of Michigan's school districts are not currently offering any in-person classes due to the COVID-19 pandemic. | Stock Photo at Getty Images
Nearly half of Michigan's school districts are not currently offering any in-person classes due to the COVID-19 pandemic. | Stock Photo at Getty Images
All students in the ten largest public school districts in Michigan are still learning remotely due to the COVID-19 pandemic, according to Michigan Capitol Confidential.
As of Dec. 18, online-only instruction was being provided by Ann Arbor Public Schools, Chippewa Valley Schools, Dearborn City School District, Detroit Public Schools Community District, Grand Rapids Public Schools, Livonia Public Schools School District, Plymouth-Canton Community Schools, Rochester Community School District, Utica Community Schools, Walled Lake Consolidated Schools and Warren Consolidated Schools. More than 204,000 students were enrolled in these districts for the 2019-20 school year.
Detroit Public Schools Community District, however, opened for in-person instruction between Sept. 8 and Nov. 16, when they had to close once again due to a rise in COVID-19 cases in the community.
The Education Policy Innovation Collaborative states that school districts in Michigan have been required to create an extended COVID-19 learning plan detailing the type of instruction they will deliver to students and to reconfirm the instruction type monthly. Almost half of Michigan’s 833 schools districts are providing fully remote instruction, while just 11 districts, or 1%, are offering full-time in-person instruction, according to data from December.
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