Several Valley school district leaders tuned in Thursday afternoon for the Governor's highly anticipated announcement and release of guidelines for returning to the classroom in the fall.

Of the superintendents 21 News spoke with, all of them were relieved that the Governor didn't throw any curveballs their way and still left much of the decision making up to the individual districts.

"Obviously today I'm very excited about the possibility of having all of our students in class five days a week," said Poland Superintendent David Janofa.

Janofa said their district will now assemble a reentry committee made up of o administrators, teachers and classified staff to determine the district's specific course of action.

Janofa says the classroom setting may look different than last year, and the school still plans to incorporate the option of continued online learning.

"There's going to be some intermittent times where grade levels or buildings or what have you will go through what I would consider periodic shutdowns of traditional education. (They)will have to go online for periods of time. I think that's something we all have to plan for," said Janofa.

Newton Falls is planning for those situations.

Their superintendent explains that the district will have a fluid plan in place that's based on the state's new color-coded warning system. For example, currently Trumbull County is considered "red."

"If we're red of course that puts us in an emergency situation. So we would have to divide our students into 'Section A, Section B.' Section A would go on a Monday and Tuesday. We would clean on a Wednesday and on a Thursday and Friday we would bring B in," explained Newton Falls Superintendent Rocco Adduci.

Adduci said at times when the county is at a lower risk level, the district would hope to have about 90% of their students in the classroom with fewer students learning remotely.

And in Austintown, there is also a plan already in place. Superintendent David Cappuzzello explains that their school has a large enough classroom he feels they can safely seat all students.

"We have the desk shields that are going to go up between the kids as well, even though they are wearing the mask we're going to protect them that way so that we can do the  3 feet and not worry about the 6 feet in the classroom," said Cappuzzello.

Following the governor's guidelines, The Ohio Education Association released a statement encouraging the governor to consider enforcement. The group points out that even when a county is at the highest tier of the alert system - these are still just guidelines.