New Jersey will not have a statewide requirement for all students to wear masks in school when the next academic year begins and will instead leave it up to individual districts to determine whether to mandate face coverings.
Nearly half of teachers who identified as Black or African American reported that they were likely to leave their jobs by the end of the school year – a significantly higher percentage than teachers of other races.
This article was originally published by St. Louis Public Radio, via Kaiser Health News. When the coronavirus pandemic hit, Scott Dulle scoured the internet for ways to safely get kids back into St. Thomas More School, a private pre-K-8 school in Kansas City, Missouri, where he works as the director of building and grounds. When […]
School districts across the United States are hiring additional teachers in anticipation of what will be one of the largest kindergarten classes ever as enrollment rebounds following the coronavirus pandemic.
In an email, the school explained that students who were unable to provide a vaccination card had a number written on their hand. Dancing was divided among three dance floors. During the dancing, after every few songs, students were asked to raise their hands to determine who they were around.
Georgetown University professor Marguerite Roza tracks school spending and she’s also seeing a new 2021 trend of schools’ hiring more teachers in order to reduce class sizes.
On average, school psychologists are responsible for more than double the recommended number of students and school social workers are responsible for almost five times the recommended number.
