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President Joe Biden says he wants most schools serving kindergarten through eighth grade to reopen by late April.

In a push to get students back into the classroom, the Framingham Public School District is hiring additional staff to accomodate coronavirus needs. The city is looking to hire as many as 40 new people to fill positions in classrooms where teachers can’t return to school because of health concerns. Teachers would continue their instruction from home, but new staffers…

In a push to get students back into the classroom, the Framingham Public School District is hiring additional staff to accomodate coronavirus needs.

The beginning of the school year amid the coronavirus pandemic did not lead to the surge of teacher retirements some had feared. That’s according to figures the NBC10 Investigators obtained from the Massachusetts Teachers’ Retirement System. Those stats show the roughly 2,600 retirement applications were actually a little below the average of 2,800 retirements over the previous five years. In…

Some school officials had expressed concern that the pandemic would lead to a surge in teacher retirements, but figures show fewer retirement applications have been submitted than usual.

Members of the Sharon Teachers Association in Massachusetts plan to rally Wednesday in a continued push for remote learning.