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TN passes bill requiring schools to offer summer school programs for students falling behind

The bill requires schools to implement a program of after-school learning mini-camps, learning loss bridge camps, and summer learning camps to remediate student learning loss.

Schools turn to air scrubbers to fight COVID-19

"It's to filter the air, lessen the effects hopefully, it's supposed to break down the particles to clean the air better so we have better airflow. so beneficial for both staff and students," said Pamela Reese-Taylor, Health Services Director in Cedar Hill ISD.

San Diego NAACP raise objections to Biden’s pick for number two spot at Education Department

President Joe Biden’s nomination of Miguel Cardona for education secretary has been largely well received. But his choice for the number two spot at the department is prompting some objections from education interest groups.

DA Leadership academy seeks aspiring superintendents

District Administration's National Superintendent Academy is specially designed for K-12 directors and coordinators ready to take the next step in leading a school system.

What one district did to prevent students from failing (subscription)

Teachers and administrators said the best thing for their students was to be in school.

Biden revokes Trump report promoting ‘patriotic education’

Historians widely panned the report, saying it offers a false and outdated version of American history that ignores decades of research.

How some school districts are teaching students about the Biden inauguration

In the Leander Independent School District, the social studies curriculum team curated specific resources for teachers to use when guiding students through the event.

Biden expected to make narrowing digital divide an ‘early, urgent priority’ to help students

The Biden approach would offer a sharp contrast to how the Office of Education Technology has operated during the Trump administration, particularly the 10 months of the pandemic.

Ohio schools prepare for COVID-19 vaccine rollout on Feb. 1

To prepare for the rollout, area school leaders are doing what's necessary to save their employees a spot in line – including committing to in-person learning in some form by March 1.

Pandemic teacher shortages imperil in-person schooling (subscription)

The nation’s schools need thousands of more teachers, full-time and substitute, to keep classrooms open during coronavirus outbreaks.

Colorado schools add saliva testing to slow spread of COVID-19 in the classroom

Regular testing of elementary school kids aims to ID asymptomatic cases and keep disease from shutting down in-person learning this spring.

School choice lawsuit surge pushes possible high court fight

Vermont is facing at least its second lawsuit in four months over a voucher program that allows students in communities that don’t have schools or are not part of supervisory unions to attend schools of their choice.

What does a more contagious virus mean for schools? (subscription)

The coronavirus variant discovered in Britain is more easily spread among children, as it is among adults. Current safeguards should protect schools, experts said, but only if strictly enforced.

‘Disturbing reports’ about Seattle schools spark civil-rights probe by U.S. Department of Education

The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights is investigating Seattle Public Schools after hearing “disturbing reports” about how the district handled special education during the pandemic.

Proposed bill would let Missouri school districts certify people to be teachers

The bill would let school districts offer teaching certifications to people who don’t have a certification from the state of Missouri.