Getting students who have missed significant amounts of school to return is the only the first step in what will a long and challenging recovery process, dropout expert says.

Nevada's associate superintendent for school improvement, Kody Asmus said if a student or a family wants online learning, “they’re going to get it, they’re going to find it, whether it's homeschooling or open-enrolling to another school or district that is offering it, and we would just love to keep our kids with us."

While the Next Generation Science Standards ask teachers to take a new approach to instruction, they also empower teachers and students to be scientists together.

Sakinah Irizarry, who has fifth- and seventh-grade students in the district, said that the assignment was harmful to every student, regardless of race, because it asked them to treat a traumatic experience as a thought experiment based on lies.