Mindfulness training can reduce stress and anxiety as students return to school grappling with the isolation and ongoing anxiety of the COVID pandemic and school closures.
Schools must balance two complex issues—safety and privacy—as they look to technology to help them identify students who are suffering a mental health crisis or threatening self-harm.
School administrators are issuing fewer out-of-school suspensions, but Black students and students with disabilities remain more likely to get suspended.
Later this calendar year, aspiring subs will have the choice of taking a virtual course of about 20 hours - or fulfilling the traditional 60 college credit hours.
Administrators have been forced to delay school and recruit parents to transport students as a shortage bus drivers spreads along with the latest COVID surge.
The policy also included two amendments: mandatory inclusivity training for all LCPS staff, and renovations or modifications for restrooms within five years to build more privacy and individual spaces.
