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Transportation

Reopening plan review: 4 promising practices

An analysis of school district response plans to COVID reveals strong, replicable practices from reopening and recovery plans that other systems can model, even where schools have already opened.

10 steps to make walking or biking to school safer

Parents support road closures, traffic restrictions and lower speed limits to protect students walking or cycling to school during the COVID pandemic.

New resource offers foundation for crafting key parent notifications

Crafting Compliant Parent Notifications to Facilitate Family Engagement provides key entry points to engaging parents and informing them of their children’s rights and opportunities in education.

Why a school building’s health is critical to reopening

Proper filtration and ventilation are just the start; a greener future means providing safe school environments for all

How risky are school activities? This chart has answers.

Walking to school, prepackaged meals and non-contact sports outdoors run a lower risk of transmitting coronavirus in schools. Contact sports, choirs and bands, and buses pose the highest risk.

11 COVID safety measures that are a must for districts

In a National PTA webinar, infectious disease physicians answered questions from parents and teachers on COVID-19’s impact on children and youth and what current information indicates about how to mitigate risks for transmission in schools.
Fri Jul 17th, 2020

Shorter school day not a solution to bus transportation challenges

While staggered arrival and departure times for students with disabilities might be acceptable in the return to school this fall, administrators must be aware that such an arrangement could affect a student's right to FAPE.
Tue Jul 14th, 2020

Virus spikes force big districts to go back to school online-only

Several large school districts, including Los Angeles, Atlanta and Nashville, will start school with online learning due to spiking coronavirus cases.

Tue Jul 14th, 2020

New book offers 50 ways to test your knowledge on IEPs

LRP Media Group, a recognized leader in the special education publishing industry, has released Meet the IEP Challenge: 50 Scenarios for Staff Compliance Training. Each part of this 2020 book relates to a component of the IEP that is required under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act.
Tue Jul 14th, 2020

How SEL, personalized learning drive a Texas district’s reopening

On the first day of school when classrooms reopen in Texas' Ector County ISD, teachers are more likely to cover social-emotional learning than math or English, Superintendent Scott Muri says.
Thu Jun 25th, 2020

7 questions schools will have to answer to reopen in fall 2020

Superintendents are now diving into the nitty-gritty as they look ahead to reopening schools safely in fall 2020 and welcoming students back into classrooms that may look a lot different.
Wed Apr 29th, 2020