APS board to meet in person again

DOWNTOWN AKRON — Students, teachers and staff of the Akron Public Schools (APS) are heading back to their classrooms, in-person and virtually, and based on a resolution approved at the March 8 meeting of the APS Board of Education, board members will resume face-to-face meetings as well.
The board will meet at the Sylvester Small Administration Building, 10 N. Main St., beginning March 22, almost a year to the day it voted to suspend in-person meetings due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The board has been convening virtually and livestreaming its meetings and committee meetings, and depending on its comfort level, board members can either attend in-person or continue participating virtually.
“We’ll look at some other options with cameras in some other rooms, where we might have to extend if we get in-person visitors,” said Superintendent David James. “But I’ll have a little…