Parents have gotten news-coronavirus-school-closure-20200505-apmehl65hfbbve43e6qtiouzq4-story.html">news they were expecting about continued distance learning, but it’s still going to be a rough two months. Most states in the nation had already made this decision, including Massachusetts, New York, and Rhode Island.

This hour, we talk about what this will mean for students and educators, and how schools might plan to reopen in the fall.

Also, in Connecticut black residents are dying from COVID-19 in higher numbers per capita than white residents. So what is the state doing news-coronavirus-north-end-testing-20200504-jwh4cagg6ra5phpdh2tdagky6q-story.html">to get more testing to vulnerable communities?

And some think Chris Dodd is an odd choice as co-chair of Joe Biden’s VP search committee.4

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• Colin McEnroe - Host of The Colin McEnroe Show, and a columnist for Hearst Connecticut (@ColinMcEnroe)
• Susan Bigelow - columnist at ctnewsjunkie.com (@whateversusan)
• Bilal Sekou-- Associate Professor of Politics and Government at University of Hartford (@bilalsekou)

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