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With fewer schools closing because of COVID outbreaks in recent weeks, administrators are ramping up testing of students and staff to keep in-person instruction rolling.
A surge in students shifting to homeschooling during the pandemic offers yet another warning for public school administrators facing enrollment pressures post-COVID.
California will add the COVID vaccine to its list of 10 mandatory school vaccinations as soon as medicines receive full FDA approval, which could occur before Jan. 1.
Most public schools have stayed open for full in-person learning but about 1,800 have shut down due to COVID, ‘affecting the education and well-being of 933,000 students,’ the CDC says.
The human faces of the grim toll COVID’s has taken on teachers and school staffers are being shared daily on a Twitter feed called “School Personnel Lost To Covid.”
Kim Hagood estimates about two in 10 students in her son’s central Alabama school district regularly wear their masks. And one of those is her 11-year-old son.
A majority of the 320,000 children from Mexico, Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador enrolled in K-12 public schools with their immigration statuses unresolved.
COVID’s ongoing spread in classrooms is forcing a growing number of district leaders to refine remote instruction programs as states also develop new guidelines.
San Diego USD is the latest big district to require student vaccinations as administrators elsewhere drop mask mandates with oncer surging COVID rates declining.
Schools that saw COVID surges after opening without mask mandates are now seeing cases decline as outbreaks spread where face coverings are largely optional.
More evidence shows masks significantly reduce the spread of COVID in schools as judges are taking varying stances on vaccine requirements, face coverings and other policies.
Student privacy and equity could be two casualties of educators’ Herculean efforts to hand out millions of laptops and tablets to connect families after the COVID shut down, an advocacy group says.
Florida policy on asymptomatic students could drive teachers away while district leaders say they won’t tolerate threats of violence over mask mandates.
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.
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