Educators sued Gov. Ron DeSantis and Flordia's department of education Monday to block the reopening of classrooms during the state's continuing surge of coronavirus infection.
To stem "COVID slide" learning loss, new policies are needed to boost testing equity and to adapt assessments to online and hybrid learning, according to NWEA.
Federal interpretation of the CARES Act, contend the attorneys general of Michigan, California, Maine, New Mexico, Wisconson and District of Columbia, will hurt low-income and at-risk students and their teachers, as well as the public schools that serve them and need to meet students' educational and social-emotional needs due to pandemic-related school closures.
Former principal Linda Cliatt-Wayman's formula for turning around low-performing schools includes professional bravery and ensuring students know their actions have consequences.
Exclusion of religious schools in a tax-based scholarship program is discriminatory, according to the decision, which is a disappointment to many public school supporters.
Although special education teachers may want to refer to services to make up for shortfalls during school closures as compensatory education or compensatory services, a school attorney says the terms should be avoided.
The lawsuit criticizes the definition of sexual harassment under the new Title IX rule. It also alleges the new rule fails to consider the unique challenges that may arise in the K-12 environment and disregards the needs of young students and students with disabilities.
Many superintendents have voiced support for anti-racist protests after George Floyd's death, but only a few have said they will remove police from their schools.
