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2020 school year begins online for PISD students

by | Jul 23, 2020 | Education

The anticipation as to what the start of the 2020 school year will look like is finally here.

Parents of PISD students learned Friday, July 17 that school will start Aug. 12, only it will be in a fully remote learning environ­ment for at least the first month of school as district officials watch and evaluate the current COV­ID-19 crisis.

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