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Health and wellness

Back to school: How administrators can continue to put health and safety first

Sam DeAth -
Considering the benefits of botanicals vs. chemical disinfectants to keep students and the environment safe.

11 Florida districts now face threat of new fines in student mask battle

Matt Zalaznick -
Florida has now threatened to dock federal grant funds from districts that continue to disobey Gov. Ron DeSantis' ban on mask mandates.

9 ways educators can deploy SEL to stem chronic absenteeism

Kristin Hinton -
Even though educators have their work cut out for them to reduce chronic rates of absences this fall, this crisis does present an opportunity to make schools stronger and more conducive to learning.

3 ways COVID testing is speeding up to keep students out of quarantine

Matt Zalaznick -
With fewer schools closing because of COVID outbreaks in recent weeks, administrators are ramping up testing of students and staff to keep in-person instruction rolling.

3 school air quality considerations opening a window won’t fix

Danny White -
A national survey by GAO found that 41% of districts need to update or replace HVAC systems in at least half their schools (approximately 36,000 schools nationwide).

Over 1,800 educators fill growing Twitter feed tracking heavy COVID toll

Matt Zalaznick -
The human faces of  the grim toll COVID's has taken on teachers and school staffers are being shared daily on a Twitter feed called "School Personnel Lost To Covid."

4 states have suffered bulk of COVID closures so far this school year

Matt Zalaznick -
Most public schools have stayed open for full in-person learning but about 1,800 have shut down due to COVID, 'affecting the education and well-being of 933,000 students,' the CDC says. 

California takes big step in adding COVID to list of mandatory school vaccinations

Matt Zalaznick -
California will add the COVID vaccine to its list of 10 mandatory school vaccinations as soon as medicines receive full FDA approval, which could occur before Jan. 1.

How a nonprofit backs parents in nationwide push for school mask mandates

Matt Zalaznick -
Kim Hagood estimates about two in 10 students in her son's central Alabama school district regularly wear their masks. And one of those is her 11-year-old son.

3 goals leaders set for ESSER funds to keep schools open in 3rd COVID year

Charles Hendrix -
Congressional panel discusses how ARP ESSER funds will address unfinished learning,d keep classrooms open and improve outcomes for students.

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