CINCINNATI — After temporarily going to remote learning, Cincinnati Public Schools are set to return to in-person learning Monday, Jan. 24. 

On Monday, Jan. 10, the Cincinnati Board of Education voted 6-1 to temporarily return all of its 65 schools to remote learning from Wednesday, Jan. 12 through at least Friday, Jan. 21 due to ongoing staffing challenges caused by a recent local surge of COVID-19. 

The district chose the approach of continuing to go by a school-by-school approach, which it used for a handful of schools in the days leading up to the vote.

CPS said in a statement that the timeline was contingent on staff levels being sufficient to “safely reopen schools” at that time.

The schedule affected seven school days. CPS schools were closed — and there was no virtual learning — on Monday, Jan. 17 in observance of the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday.

Cincinnati Public Schools has about 36,000 students between preschool and 12th grade.