Chase Middle School locker cleanup

Chase Middle School students return to the school to clear out their lockers and return text books, Thursday, June 11, 2020, in Spokane. Declaring Thursday that he expects schools will be open for full-time face-to-face instruction, state superintendent Chris Reykdal also told districts how to make that happen.

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Thu., June 11, 2020

Chase Middle School student Porter Richardson, 13, remembers his combination numbers to open and clean out his locker on June 11. Spokane Public Schools launched a day program to offer families a supervised, safe place to do remote school work, but officials say the cost has meant few students from low-income families have enrolled.

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Chase Middle School eighth-grade student Kennedy Smith cleared out her locker and picked up her yearbook, Thursday, June 11, 2020, in Spokane.

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Chase Middle School student Elian Sanchez, 12, show off his artwork to his mother, Jerrilyn Pierce, left, as they came to clean out his locker and classroom art, Thursday, June 11, 2020, in Spokane.

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Chase Middle School student Valentino Hampton, 13, cleans out his locker in the seventh-grade hallway on June 11 with his mother Aiesha Hampton in Spokane. Back-to-school in classrooms for the fall seems less and less likely, Superintendent Adam Swinyard said this week.

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Chase Middle School student Porter Richardson, 13, digs deep to clean out his locker in the seventh-grade hallway, Thursday, June 11, 2020, in Spokane.

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Chase Middle School student Leah Platt cleans out her locker in the seventh-grade hallway with her mother, Nia Platt, left, Thursday, June 11, 2020, in Spokane.

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