NC bill to return more students to classrooms becomes law

RALEIGH, NC (AP) — Compromise legislation that directs how North Carolina’s K-12 schools must offer in-person instruction this spring to all students is now law.

Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper signed it on Thursday, hours after the House vote unanimously for the measure, which came about through negotiations between legislative Republicans and Cooper.

The Senate already passed it Wednesday. The bill untangles a stalemate surrounding a previous school-reopening measure that Cooper vetoed almost two weeks ago.

The measure directs elementary schools to provide full-time classroom instruction to all students and gives that option to districts for their middle and high schools.

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