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President Joe Biden’s nomination of Miguel Cardona for education secretary has been largely well received. But his choice for the number two spot at the department is prompting some objections from education interest groups.
"It's to filter the air, lessen the effects hopefully, it's supposed to break down the particles to clean the air better so we have better airflow. so beneficial for both staff and students," said Pamela Reese-Taylor, Health Services Director in Cedar Hill ISD.
The bill requires schools to implement a program of after-school learning mini-camps, learning loss bridge camps, and summer learning camps to remediate student learning loss.
In the Leander Independent School District, the social studies curriculum team curated specific resources for teachers to use when guiding students through the event.
Historians widely panned the report, saying it offers a false and outdated version of American history that ignores decades of research.
Teachers and administrators said the best thing for their students was to be in school.
To prepare for the rollout, area school leaders are doing what's necessary to save their employees a spot in line — including committing to in-person learning in some form by March 1.
The Biden approach would offer a sharp contrast to how the Office of Education Technology has operated during the Trump administration, particularly the 10 months of the pandemic.
Vermont is facing at least its second lawsuit in four months over a voucher program that allows students in communities that don’t have schools or are not part of supervisory unions to attend schools of their choice.
Regular testing of elementary school kids aims to ID asymptomatic cases and keep disease from shutting down in-person learning this spring.
The nation’s schools need thousands of more teachers, full-time and substitute, to keep classrooms open during coronavirus outbreaks.
The bill would let school districts offer teaching certifications to people who don’t have a certification from the state of Missouri.
The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights is investigating Seattle Public Schools after hearing “disturbing reports” about how the district handled special education during the pandemic.
The coronavirus variant discovered in Britain is more easily spread among children, as it is among adults. Current safeguards should protect schools, experts said, but only if strictly enforced.
While teachers across New York City raced to sign up for coronavirus vaccines this week, it could be many months before schools are able to ramp up in-person instruction significantly, public health experts said.
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