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A whole lot of learning going on as new school year starts By Laura B. Hayden By the end of August more than 13,000 North Central Connecticut students had returned to school with the hopes of completing their 2023-24 school year in early June 2024. Projected last-day dates (subject to snow days that could move the closing dates later into June) of this school year could occur
as early as June 6 in Somers, June 7 in East Windsor, Ellington, and Stafford, June 10 in Enfield, and June 11 in Suffield. Between now and the tentative last days, there will be a whole lot of learning going on, even as school systems continue to contend with long-term effects COVID has wrought since the 2019-20 school year.
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