Outside Baltimore school system headquarters last night, the teachers union and some parents were protesting, warning against re-opening school buildings with the Covid-19 pandemic still raging.

But at the virtual school board meeting underway at that same moment, district officials were making a different case:

They cited elevated student failure rates in the first marking period in every grade compared to a year ago.

They read a parent’s email urging the board to “spare no effort to return students to in person learning.”

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