Online Learning

Closures will still last days to weeks as district leaders cope with staffing shortages and try to stem COVID transmissions.

A majority of adults trust their schools to handle COVID but they also say preventing the spread of the virus is more important than keeping kids in classrooms.

Staff shortages in the classroom and elsewhere are the leading reasons some big districts have shifted to virtual learning this week, with administrators hoping to bring students back quickly.

More large urban districts have shifted to remote learning as teachers unions squared off with administrators in Chicago and New York over in-person learning.

Students and teachers in dozens of districts, many in the Northeast, will spend days to weeks on remote learning to start 2022 due to the latest COVID wave.

Administrators now have to convince students and their families that this next phase of virtual learning is not the same as what occurred earlier in the pandemic.