Bay City Public Schools will be closed on Friday, Jan. 21 and Monday, Jan. 24 due to illnesses.

Flint Community Schools announced Wednesday students will continue remote learning past Jan. 24 until further notice.

Clio Area Schools will be closed Friday, Jan. 14, and will require masks for staff and students starting on Jan. 18 after 750 students were not in class because of COVID-19 cases.

Flint Community Schools has made the decision to continue remote learning until Monday, Jan. 24.

Bay City Public Schools is considering moving kindergarten through fifth-grade students at Linsday Elementary to another elementary school.

Multiple schools in Genesee County are starting the new year virtually.

Schools in Michigan are recruiting 560 psychologists, social workers, counselors and nurses to help with students’ mental and physical needs.

Michigan public schools can use non-teaching staff as substitute teachers the rest of the academic year under a law designed to address a shortage during the coronavirus pandemic.

Goodrich Area School students 5-years-old and older will not need to wear a mask when they return from the holiday break.

School mask mandates are starting to disappear across the country including in mid-Michigan where the Genesee County Board of Commissioners will lift the mask mandate for most students next month.