Safety & Wellness

Providing distance learning and school nutrition to less-affluent families required education leaders to find creative solutions for uninterrupted support.

Coronavirus has district leaders quickly devising ways to provide school meals, ed tech and remote learning as entire states begin to order schools to shut buildings for the rest of the 2019-2020 year. 

Administrators shifting to distance learning should not expect to become overnight experts during the early stages of COVID-19 school closures.

Coronavirus closed schools in New York City, which will move to distance learning, while LAUSD calls for community resource centers to provide childcare. ACT reschedules national test.

Efforts to slow coronavirus close all schools in Ohio, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Virginia, and Los Angeles and Washington, D.C.

Concerns over coronavirus compelled Kentucky's governor to tell all schools to prepare to close with "as little as 72 hours notice," the Louisville Courier-Journal reported.