The Latest: New Orleans schools go back to distance learning

NEW ORLEANS — Public schools in New Orleans will go back to “distance learning” this week because of rising COVID-19 cases in the city.The city’s school system said Monday that all pre-K through Grade 12 classes will go online by no later than Thursday. The public school system in New Orleans had implemented a return to in-class learning that began back in September.Superintendent Henderson Lewis said a spike in positive cases in the city prompted the “unfortunate b