NORTHEAST OREGON — The COVID-19 pandemic has forced Union and Wallowa counties’ school districts and their students to travel a rugged and harmful path the past 13 months. Funds from the American Rescue Plan Act, the latest COVID-19 relief package from the federal government, however, will help put them on […]
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All public schools must start offering in-person learning five days a week as of Monday, April 19, Gov. Chris Sununu has announced. Administrators are being given 2 1/2 weeks’ notice of the change so they can make the necessary adjustments, the governor said. “We want to get kids back into […]
French President Emmanuel Macron announced on Wednesday that the nation was banning domestic travel and closing schools for several weeks as a surge in COVID-19 cases has strained hospitals across the country. “We’re going to close nursery, elementary and high schools for three weeks,” Macron said in a televised address […]
ROYAL CITY — Royal School District officials are planning to drop the hybrid schedule — part-time on campus and part-time online — April 12, in favor of full-time, in-person instruction, when classes resume after spring vacation. School board members approved a resolution authorizing the change at a special meeting Friday. […]
In January, Virginia teachers were moved into a high-priority group for vaccines. One would think that demanding and accepting this high prioritization would make these school systems sensitive to the responsibility it comes with. Alas, it did not. They want to write off the remaining three months of school, just […]
One after another, like a relentless set of dominoes falling, states closed their schools as the pandemic swept across the nation last March. For America’s students and their families, so much has changed and been lost, but somehow also found in the last 52 weeks. Students learned to live without […]
Middle and high school students in the Los Angeles Unified School District will head back to campus two days a week in late April or early May, assuming various stars align. By that time, barely any of the school year will be left to salvage — which is why state […]
With many Tucson school districts returning to some form of in-person learning in the coming weeks, the popular city-run KIDCO program is gearing up to resume its usual after-school program at its school-based sites. Registration for the after school KIDCO program starts at 8 a.m. on Friday, March 12 online […]
BOSTON (SHNS) – Three hundred and forty-nine days since they were last in classrooms, some of Boston’s youngest students went back to school on Monday. The state’s largest school district welcomed back students in pre-kindergarten through grade three whose families had opted in for in-person learning, joining the high-priority students […]
Frustrated parents are calling on the Jersey City Public Schools to reopen, but the local teachers union wants staff members vaccinated before in-person learning resumes. Dozens of parents and students called into the Board of Education’s virtual meeting on Thursday, urging the district to reopen schools as soon as possible […]
Suspension levels for Black students are drastically higher than for their white counterparts. Some are hoping to halt suspensions for K-5 students. Brian Gordon | USA Today Network Only a few miles separate the Rachel Freeman School of Engineering from Wrightsville Beach Elementary, yet these two New Hanover County elementary schools […]
Many parents, including those in politically crucial suburbs, crave the normalcy that will come with the reopening of classrooms, which have been closed for nearly a year in much of the country. But few groups did more to push Biden’s candidacy than teachers unions, which have resisted returning to school […]
School districts can avoid having to make-up snow days be allowing students to go online ST. LOUIS COUNTY, Mo. — Some area school districts had a snow day on Wednesday while others were in-session. In other school districts, students stayed home and went to school online. COVID-19 has forced school […]
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In the state hardest hit by the pandemic, a heated debate about the reopening of schools is underway—and teachers there are feeling unheard. California Gov. Gavin Newsom has been facing growing pressure to resume in-person instruction from parents keen to have children back in classrooms before the entire school year […]
Havencroft Elementary art teacher Anna Huelskamp brainstormed with a student for an art project focused on Candy Land. Courtesy photo Last fall, Havencroft Elementary art teacher Anna Huelskamp brainstormed with her fifth-graders about an art project she wanted to do with neon and black lights. “One of the kids came […]
CLOSE Students at Beverly Elementary during in-person learning. The Birmingham Public Schools board of education voted Tuesday to send students back to school five days a week beginning March 15. (Photo: Courtesy of Birmingham Public Schools) Birmingham students are expected to return to the classroom in just more than a month […]
OGDEN — In addition to summer vacation being delayed by a day, students at Highland and Mt. Ogden junior high schools now have a shortened spring break, the Ogden School District told parents in an email this week. The announcement comes after a monthslong deliberation about how the district would […]
OGDEN — In addition to summer vacation being delayed by a day, students at Highland and Mound Fort junior high schools now have a shortened spring break, the Ogden School District told parents in an email this week. The announcement comes after a monthslong deliberation about how the district would make […]
AUGUSTA, Ga. (WRDW/WAGT) – The Richmond County School System says about 60 percent of students chose in-person learning this semester, up from 40 percent last semester. But because of COVID-19 numbers in the county, the district is having everyone start the semester virtually. “Richmond County has really done a good […]
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The Iowa Legislature will convene Monday with Republicans holding large majorities and promising an agenda that could include tax cuts and changes to voting, gun and school attendance laws. Republicans, who in November expanded their majority in the House and maintained their edge in the […]
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — Knox County Schools’ announcement that all of its district schools would shift to online learning next week is causing a ripple effect of both closures/suspension of activities for related organizations as well as the expansion of other groups in order to help out. Knox County Schools […]