The U.S. Education Department shared guidance promoting best practices and evidence-based approaches to address lost instructional time, which can be supported with American Rescue Plan funds.
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.
President says he'll use federal authority, including taking legal action, against state leaders who have threatened to sanction superintendents who have flouted bans on mask mandates.
Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona wrote to the governors and state education chiefs of Florida and Texas, saying their moves against masks will threaten in-person instruction.
Continued use of masks and social distancing will pose unique communication challenges for children who are hard of hearing as they return to school over the next several weeks.
It is critical that K-12 leaders do all they can to celebrate the success their teachers and students have had with online and digital tools, FETC featured speaker Ann McMullan says.
This brings the number of approved plans to 21, enabling those states to receive their portion of the more than $122 billion in the American Rescue Plan Act.
