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Florida policy on asymptomatic students could drive teachers away while district leaders say they won’t tolerate threats of violence over mask mandates.
Perfect storm of the delta variant, low vaccination rates in parts of the country and political resistance to universal masking have sent tens of thousands of students and staff members into isolation and quarantine.
Leaders in several districts have in recent days have announced that all students and staff, regardless of age or vaccination status, will be required to wear masks when the 2021-22 school year begins.
A small but growing number of districts are mandating vaccines for eligible as the COVID delta variant disrupted the beginning of yet another school year.
Oakland USD will require eligible students to get vaccinated while the feds are sending aid to Florida district facing funding cuts in mask battle with Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration.
About 240,000 students in rural, suburban, and urban communities switched to public charter schools during the heavily disrupted 2020-21 school year.
Educators who narrowed achievement gaps and oversaw exceptional academic performance did the work to put 325 schools on the National Blue Ribbon list for 2021.
In other COVID ed news, Florida, parents in Florida now have the power to decide if students who are asymptomatic should return to school after they’ve been deemed a close contact for COVID exposures.
District leaders are having to change menus daily as food suppliers are forced to substitute products, putting pressure on students with allergies to check ingredients.
In recent years, the system has hired more male teachers of color and retained 95% of teachers rated effective and highly effective by its internal evaluation system.
Two smaller doses of its COVID-19 vaccine provide “robust” protection for children age 5 to 11, and is also safe and well-tolerated, Pfizer and its partner BioTNech announced Monday.
New York state is now reaching out to 550,000 commercial driver’s license holders in efforts to recruit them as school bus drivers while DMV speeds up the testing process.
Across the U.S., Black and Hispanic children are—just like their parents—more likely to be infected and hospitalized by COVID than are white kids, a new study has found.
If your district is like many others across the country, your student population is diversifying far more rapidly than is your teaching workforce. Two organizations are working on the solution.
Newly-launched COVID-19 School Data Hub will provide the information needed to answer big-picture questions such as how in-person vs. remote learning affected academic performance.
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