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The emerging questions for educators and parents are: What is the best way to measure whether students are participating in learning? And who will be held responsible for a student who doesn't participate?
“Everyone’s talking about the shortage of teachers, but no one’s talking about the extra [staff] needed for special needs students.”
According to the data, which includes self-reported, test-confirmed cases from hundreds of school districts across the state, 69% of infected students were in grades seven through 12, while just 15% were in grades four through six and 16% in grade three or lower.
A change like this, even if it is temporary, has huge ramifications.
There are currently no trials underway, making a vaccine unlikely before fall of 2021. And students are missing online school at alarming rates.
Teacher, Andrea McFarlain said they have over 100 people already on the waiting list. They plan to take in more kids as schools reopen in Southwest Louisiana and spots open back up.
North Carolina mandates vaccines that ward off a litany of infections like mumps, measles, tetanus, whooping cough, polio, chickenpox. Other vaccines, like an annual flu shot, are recommended by the CDC but not required by the state.
A Pennsylvania school district didn’t violate the civil rights of three tenured teachers when it laid them off due to a multi-million dollar budget shortfall, a federal appeals court has ruled.
A new national effort asks K-12 schools to voluntarily — and anonymously — report their confirmed and suspected coronavirus cases, along with the safety strategies they're using.
Mineola ISD’s administrators, staff members, and students have been following the safety protocol since the school district’s 2020-2021 school year started on Aug. 13, and they have been able to limit the spread of the COVID virus.
The California Department of Education announced new anti-racism lessons and teacher training for school districts, days after the President called for a more “patriotic education."
Up to 90,000 children in pre-K and students with advanced disabilities returned to in-person school.
After conducting hours of interviews with educators from schools to understand how they succeed, we discovered a consistent set of trends.
Funding challenges can give leaders a push to make smart decisions about school spending.
Reports by conservative activists that Utah students can access pornography in their public schools have convinced state lawmakers that action is necessary.
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