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While many school districts in Michigan have scrambled to navigate an uncertain academic environment, Ecorse Public Schools has had an advantage during these past two years of the COVID-19 pandemic: the district was making a successful transition to become a One-to-One Computer District, placing a digital laptop/textbook into the hands of nearly all the roughly 1,000 students attending Ecorse schools.

In fact, Superintendent Dr. Josha Talison says the district's classes have remained in-person for a greater part of the past two years, aside from the state-mandated school shutdown early in...