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Great Hearts Texas Superintendent Daniel Scoggin said in a statement to CNN that school policy forbids faculty from displaying messages on their face masks.
Leaders of the union representing New York City principals called for Mayor Bill de Blasio to cede control of the nation’s largest school district for the remainder of the pandemic, following a chaotic summer of planning to reopen.
In a letter written by education commissioner Richard Corcoran, both Broward and Miami-Dade superintendents were told that they needed to reopen schools for in-person classes earlier than previously planned.
The emerging questions for educators and parents are: What is the best way to measure whether students are participating in learning? And who will be held responsible for a student who doesn’t participate?
“Everyone’s talking about the shortage of teachers, but no one’s talking about the extra [staff] needed for special needs students.”
According to the data, which includes self-reported, test-confirmed cases from hundreds of school districts across the state, 69% of infected students were in grades seven through 12, while just 15% were in grades four through six and 16% in grade three or lower.
A change like this, even if it is temporary, has huge ramifications.
There are currently no trials underway, making a vaccine unlikely before fall of 2021. And students are missing online school at alarming rates.
Teacher, Andrea McFarlain said they have over 100 people already on the waiting list. They plan to take in more kids as schools reopen in Southwest Louisiana and spots open back up.
This year, District Administration and FETC will honor the best of new ed tech solutions with our “Top Ed Tech Products of the Year” awards.
North Carolina mandates vaccines that ward off a litany of infections like mumps, measles, tetanus, whooping cough, polio, chickenpox. Other vaccines, like an annual flu shot, are recommended by the CDC but not required by the state.
A Pennsylvania school district didn’t violate the civil rights of three tenured teachers when it laid them off due to a multi-million dollar budget shortfall, a federal appeals court has ruled.
A new national effort asks K-12 schools to voluntarily — and anonymously — report their confirmed and suspected coronavirus cases, along with the safety strategies they’re using.
Click here to read the October, 2020, District Administration magazine
Mineola ISD’s administrators, staff members, and students have been following the safety protocol since the school district’s 2020-2021 school year started on Aug. 13, and they have been able to limit the spread of the COVID virus.
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