Coronavirus

California district is the first to require students to get COVID-19 vaccine

All students and staff members in California's Culver City USD have until Nov. 19 to provide proof of vaccination, Superintendent Quoc Tran announced on social media.

10 top concepts schools should keep in mind when designing outdoor classrooms

Connecting with natural phenomena can make stepping outside the most memorable experience of a student's time in school, one veteran outdoor educator says.

How districts are coping as COVID worsens school bus driver shortage

Administrators have been forced to delay school and recruit parents to transport students as a shortage bus drivers spreads along with the latest COVID surge.

Dress code dodge: School leaders dig in for big mask fights in 3 states

Arizona governor threatens to withhold funding, Florida state education officials vow to investigate and one Texas district adds masks to its dress code to sidestep a ban.

Will teachers in one state risk losing their jobs if they skip the vaccine?

In Oklahoma City Schools, COVID cases exploded after just three days of school. Elsewhere, teachers faced a high-stakes vaccine mandate and schools shut down.

As delta rages, schools need to plan for a virtual option this fall

Education needs an update, and this is our opportunity to evolve. Virtual education is the future, and it's time to start investing in it.

Surging delta is now making new school year look just like last year

Hopes for a return to normal in-person instruction are being dashed throughout the south as the delta variant forces dozens of districts to shift back online or close altogether. 

Feds scold 2 governors who are battling mask mandates as delta sweeps into schools

Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona wrote to the governors and state education chiefs of Florida and Texas, saying their moves against masks will threaten in-person instruction.

12 things we know and don’t know about pandemic’s impact on students

Full academic and social-emotional impacts of the pandemic are still unknown due to testing disruptions and difficulties tracking student wellbeing

Empower K-12 COVID resilience with analytics

In order to determine how to address the pandemic's impact on education, we have to look at the data -- by school district, by school, and by student.

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