Arizona Governor Doug Ducey on Thursday dropped a plan to require in-person learning to start on Aug. 17 at public schools, leaving it up to school districts on when to begin onsite education as COVID-19 test positivity rates remained high.
FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Donald Trump hugs Arizona Governor Doug Ducey, as the president arrives at Sky International Airport to tour a nearby Honeywell facility manufacturing protective masks for the coronavirus disease pandemic in Phoenix, Arizona, U.S., May 5, 2020. REUTERS/Tom Brenner/File Photo
Ducey said state authorities would provide school districts with science-based benchmarks on when students could return. “We don’t know what that date is, it’s not reasonable to set a date,” Hoffman told a press conference. Arizona reported a decline in daily cases in July and lowered its rate of ICU hospitalizations but authorities expect deaths to increase in coming weeks.
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