Bessemer continues with in-person learning

By CHARITY SMITH

csmith@yourdailyglobe.com

BESSEMER — Students at Bessemer Area Schools will continue to attend classes in-person five days a week, after the school board passed an amendment on Monday, modifying its original plan for being in Phase 4 of Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s MI Safe Start Plan.

The school had announced on Friday that it would be switching over to a blended learning plan due to the area dropping down a phase — from 5 to 4 — because of a surge in COVID-19 cases in the Upper Peninsula.

The district’s original COVID-19 preparedness and response plan for Phase 4 was formulated be...