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

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

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’

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.

Substitute teacher crisis: What will it take to attract them to schools?

The nation's schools are facing a shortage of substitute teachers in classrooms, forcing staffers and administrators to help take on the task.

COVID disruption requires more than providing a device

Fifty-five technology directors detail how their districts engaged students and families online.

Why activists just launched a campaign to remove police from schools

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.

Health benefits: More schools are now offering bonuses to the fully vaccinated

As waves of educators fall ill and new deaths are reported weekly, districts are giving teachers and eligible students cash and other incentives to combat COVID.

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

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

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

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.

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