Just as they’re fully underway to teaching students at home, schools across Texas learned Tuesday they will be continuing that process for at least another month. Gov. Greg Abbott has extended his order that public schools remain closed for inclassroom instruction until at least May 4 as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. The action didn’t catch area school administrators by surprise. “We knew it would be extended but we didn’t know if it would be two weeks or something else,” Lamesa school Superintendent Jim Knight said. He said he hopes normal classroom instruction will be able to resume on May 4, but he ...