Scheduled Return to In-Person Learning Shrouded in Doubt

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Scheduled Return to In-Person Learning Shrouded in Doubt

For months, D.C. Public Schools and the Washington Teachers’ Union have clashed over whether thousands of students would return to in-person learning in the midst of the pandemic.

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