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Florida school district backpedals on mask mandate after governor says he’ll cut funds

“Broward County Public Schools intends to comply with the Governor’s latest Executive Order,’’ the district said in a statement Monday afternoon.

Did online school drive down cyberbullying?

When the pandemic first struck, many child well-being advocates worried that the massive shift to remote school would spur an uptick in a troubling behavior: online bullying.

How do Texas teachers feel about the GOP’s new social studies law

When Texas teachers return to their public or open-enrollment charter school classrooms later this year, a new state law will restrict how they can discuss current events, encourage civic engagement and teach about America’s history of racism.

Los Angeles schools order weekly virus tests for everyone, vaccinated or not (subscription)

The shift by the second-largest U.S. district comes weeks before in-person classes are scheduled to resume.

Chicago will have the largest elected school board of any major U.S. city

Beginning in 2024, Chicago will have a 21-person school board and phase in elections for those seats, a change that would establish school board elections for the first time in city history.

Indiana police boosting patrols to enforce school bus safety

More than 200 Indiana police agencies will be boosting their patrols this fall to crack down on school bus stop-arm violations and dangerous driving near school bus stops and in school zones.

4 big myths about pandemic learning loss, debunked

Myth #1: Learning loss is easy to spot and easy to define.

World pledges $4B in push to repair COVID’s education damage

International governments and companies have pledged more than $4 billion to educate 175 million children around the world and prevent a generation’s chances of being blighted by the coronavirus pandemic.

Oregon’s K-12 students will have to wear masks next school year

Governor Brown's office said the change is in line with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's recently updated guidance and is based on the latest science.

Louisiana granted $140 million to do COVID-19 testing in schools

Two public school districts and the Archdiocese of New Orleans declined funding for preventative testing.

Chemical company Monsanto told to pay teachers $185M over chemical exposure

Three schoolteachers in Washington state who sued chemical company Monsanto over exposure to materials in fluorescent lights have been awarded $185 million.

Early reading skills see a rebound but racial gaps have grown wider, tests show

The results provide some hope that a full in-person return to school this fall could see young children quickly regain the early literacy skills they missed while learning from home.

In case of COVID-19 outbreaks, remote learning next to impossible

With remote-hybrid options out the window in Missouri and Kansas, parents said, it's going to create headaches.

NYC is promising expanded special education services after school and on Saturdays

The program is the widest-reaching effort so far to address learning gaps for students with disabilities caused by the pandemic.

How China’s largest edtech company can survive the government’s latest crackdown

On Saturday, China’s State Council announced a broad-based overhaul of the private education sector, citing the need to “protect students’ right to rest, improve the quality of school education and reduce the burden on parents.”