(AP Photo/Gregory Bull, File)LANSING, Mich. ā More than 80% of Michigan school districts planned to offer some form of in-person instruction in February, which represented a more than 20 percentage-point increase over the previous month amid a decline in the coronavirus' spread.
Gretchen Whitmer has strongly encouraged schools to offer a face-to-face option by March 1.
Researchers released a report showing that 83% of traditional districts and charter schools planned to do so this month, with 65% offering a fully in-person option and 18% offering hybrid instruction.
āThese data suggest that the Biden and Whitmer administrationsā efforts have encouraged districts to return to in-person learning.
He said he has āno confidenceā that the Ann Arbor Public Schools Board of Education will authorize five days a week of in-person instruction in the fall.