For students, parents, teachers and others in Newton Unified School District 373, Monday was supposed to be the first day back to school after spring break.
It wasn’t. At least not school the way they knew it two weeks ago.
On March 17, Randy Watson, the commissioner of education in Kansas, and Gov. Laura Kelly announced that all public school buildings in Kansas would be closed for the remainder of the year in response to the COVID-19 outbreak.
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