SALT LAKE CITY (ABC4 News) – ABC4 News is shedding light on the complicated process school districts face in determining how to safely reopen schools during the global health pandemic.

 It’s been more than four months since most Utah students have seen the inside of a classroom. And since that executive order to close schools, so much remains up in the air, leaving parents and teachers to deal with the uncertainty.

The ABC4 News Special Report, Academics Amid the Pandemic, includes:

• Teachers concerned about returning to in-person classes and parents who do not want their kids to learn remotely.
• Guidance from the state superintendent for Utah schools
• Tension over the mandatory masks in schools order 
• New ways schools are sanitizing classrooms to stop the spread of COVID-19