Much of the general public has ditched masks despite rising COVID cases but students in some districts are facing mandates as the new school year begins.
Community schools in multiple states will be the focus of renewed efforts to vaccinate more children and staff in underresourced cities and neighborhoods.
With omicron on the decline, even administrators in states where support for COVID protections have been the highest are now asking for more local control over COVID policy.
A small but growing number of districts are mandating vaccines for eligible as the COVID delta variant disrupted the beginning of yet another school year.
Schools' efforts to keep educating kids in person get a boost with Pfizer's vaccine showing 90% effectiveness in preventing COVID in 5- to 11-year-olds.
San Diego USD is the latest big district to require student vaccinations as administrators elsewhere drop mask mandates with oncer surging COVID rates declining.
Two smaller doses of its COVID-19 vaccine provide "robust" protection for children age 5 to 11, and is also safe and well-tolerated, Pfizer and its partner BioTNech announced Monday.
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.
The full approval of the Pfizer vaccine has not ushered in a tidal wave of student or staff vaccine mandates in the nation's public schools—not yet, at least
Even before full approval of Pfizer's COVID vaccine, a majority of parents polled said their kids would feel safer in school if classmates and teachers were vaccinated.
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.
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.
Teachers and students may be required to get COVID vaccines to keep schools open throughout the pandemic, U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona says.
Adults, in general, are more supportive of school mask mandates for unvaccinated children and teachers than are the parents of K-12 students, a new poll has found.
CDC urges masks until all children are vaccinated as research shows reduced incidence in Georgia elementary schools where teachers still wear face coverings.
Dozens of colleges and universities have required that students get vaccinated before returning in the fall but the issue poses more complex questions for K-12.
One little-noted side effect of the pandemic that should concern administrators is the significant number of students who have missed routine vaccinations.
A Montana student vaccination campaign is one example of educators encouraging students to get inoculated as lawmakers nationwide debate vaccine requirements.
In Kansas, students in the Shawnee Mission School District told administrators that a clinic in their schools may have been their only chance to get the vaccine.
Clarksville Montgomery Schools in Tennessee want to get all grades back in person and provide a layer of security for teachers and staff. but a slow rollout from the state is hampering those efforts.
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