Superintendents and entire states reacted quickly, adjusting masking rules for schools after the CDC said fully vaccinated people no longer have to wear them.
Officials determining where 12- to 15-year-olds will get shots and whether schools will require COVID vaccines after F.D.A. approves Pfizer-BioNTech for younger teens.
Q&A with Dennis Vespe, Superintendent, Gloucester City Public Schools As it did for districts across the country, COVID-19 created many challenges for the Gloucester City Public Schools, but the New Jersey district was able to maintain instruction through a variety of creative solutions. In this brief Q&A, Superintendent Dennis Vespe discusses the impact of COVID-19, […]
"We were able to forge considerable savings while maintaining effective and safe student services."Christopher C. Irving, Ed. D., Superintendent of Schools, Teaneck, N.J. As K-12 education transitions out of the pandemic period, the crisis has placed renewed emphasis on how irreplaceable educators are, thanks to the creativity and heroics demonstrated by teachers and administrators during […]
Spreadsheets did not cut it for Rapid City Area Schools administrators keeping track of COVID rates among 13,000 students, 1,900 employees and 23 schools.
Superintendents should be aware that federal funding sources from ESSA to ESSER let state education leaders invest in the collection and analysis of district data.
One small, silver lining of the pandemic may be a collective understanding and acknowledgment that some students and families are suffering more than others.