Nearly half of Michigan's school districts are not currently offering any in-person classes due to the COVID-19 pandemic. | Adobe Stock
Nearly half of Michigan's school districts are not currently offering any in-person classes due to the COVID-19 pandemic. | Adobe Stock
Students in Genesee County are among those in Michigan's largest school districts that will end the 2020 school year without in-person learning, thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic and a spike in the state's coronavirus cases.
According to Michigan Capitol Confidential, more than 200,000 students in the state's ten largest school districts are still engaging only in online learning. According to the Education Policy Innovation Collaborative, 48% (398) of the state's school districts were offering strictly remote learning, 11 schools districts (just 1%) were offering all classes in-person and the other 51% are currently doing a mixture of both online and in-person learning, typically referred to as the "hybrid" method.
The Detroit Public Schools Community District opened temporarily for in-person education from Sept. 8 through Nov. 16 but had to revert to remote learning due to a rise in COVID-19 cases in the area.
The state's ten largest school districts include: Detroit Public Schools Community District, Utica Community Schools, Dearborn City School District, Ann Arbor Public Schools, Plymouth-Canton Community Schools, Chippewa Valley Schools, Rochester Community School District, Grand Rapids Public Schools, Livonia Public Schools School District, Warren Consolidated Schools and Walled Lake Consolidated Schools.
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