Boquet Valley Superintendent on keeping school open 'as long as we can'
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(Nov 25, 2020) Heading into the winter, a big question for families is what school will look like. New York City closed all in-person learning in its K-12 schools last week. Here in the North Country, school districts have been riddled with short and extended closures since the beginning of the school year.
The Boquet Valley Central School District, which serves kids in Essex County, was one of the first - they went remote for the first five weeks of school. That was because of a COVID-19 outbreak at the Essex Center nursing home in Elizabethtown.