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Tacoma Public Schools plans for full-time, in-person instruction for all students for 2021-2022 school year.
TPS plans to offer full time in-person instruction five days per week for ALL students in the 2021-2022 school year – in accordance with current state health and safety guidelines. Five days of in-person learning won’t necessarily look like it did before the pandemic.
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