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Legislation/legal affairs

$85 billion gap: 12 actions for improving health and safety of school facilities

Matt Zalaznick -
Districts spend about $110 billion on maintenance, operations, and capital construction each year but they need $195 billion to address aging infrastructure and other facilities concers, a new report says.

Biden plan calls for vaccine mandate for teachers, more COVID testing

Charles Hendrix -
He also says that the federal government will pay any educator whose salary is withheld from their state as punishment for mask mandates.

First major vaccine mandate is now in store for Los Angeles USD students

Matt Zalaznick -
Los Angeles USD's school board and superintendent are taking action on the nation's first major K-12 vaccine mandate to keep students in school through 2022.

4 Florida districts sue over mask crackdown they say lacks ‘logic or reason’

Matt Zalaznick -
Judge rules in parents' lawsuit that Gov. Ron DeSantis' mask mandate ban will not remain in effect while the governor appeals an earlier ruling that invalidated his ban.

Why activists just launched a campaign to remove police from schools

Matt Zalaznick -
Advocates for Black, brown and other marginalized students say they fear that a return to normal this school year will put kids at risk of more than just catching COVID.

Takeaways for special educators from OCR probes into ban on mask mandates

Dayna Straehley -
Letters to five states signal to other states and districts that ED is taking the position that prohibitions on universal masking violate the rights of some students with 504 plans or IEPs under IDEA and that schools had better accommodate them.

DeSantis fires back on masks as disabled students are now suing Iowa

Dayna Straehley -
The Florida Department of Education has cut state funding to some of the 13 districts that have defied the governor's executive order prohibiting universal masking in schools.

COVID is now shutting districts down in droves as mask disputes rage on

Matt Zalaznick -
Another governor has waded into the battle over school mask mandates as a Florida superintendent fined by her state said face coverings are beginning to have an impact on COVID-19 transmissions.

School closures are spiking as one district proves masks are protecting kids

Matt Zalaznick -
COVID positivity rate among students in one Florida district has dropped by 23% since masks were mandated even as state leaders continue to threaten fines and other punishments.

New ED guidance promotes best practices for recovering lost learning

Johnny Jackson -
The U.S. Education Department shared guidance promoting best practices and evidence-based approaches to address lost instructional time, which can be supported with American Rescue Plan funds.

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