All –
I am at the Emergency Operations Center with Gov. Cooper. He will soon direct the closure of all public schools in North Carolina.
We will be working with you on next steps, but I wanted you to know as soon as I possibly could so that you and your teams can start to prepare.
Starting Monday, there is no school for students. This is for at least two weeks, March 16-30.
If possible, please work to keep school buildings open on Monday as a teacher workday to allow staff and students to access the schools to retrieve personal items/resources.
We will schedule a call tomorrow afternoon to discuss next steps. We tentatively plan to have it at 3 p.m. We will send you that information.
We are also forming an education workgroup that will report to the Coronavirus Taskforce as we move forward together.
Thank you for your leadership during this difficult time for our state and schools.
Mark
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