Many school district leaders stepped up to the technological, economic and emotional difficulties brought on by the novel coronavirus in 2020. Indeed, there are an abundance of stories of the creative measures administrators took to not only care for students' and families’…
Shelby County Schools could use federal relief dollars to buy literacy kits, pay for summer school or improve ventilation in school buildings, the superintendent said. Superintendent Joris Ray said in an interview that the district asked the county commission and…
Jennifer McCormick left office last week quietly. She granted no end-of-term interviews, made no public appearances in her final days and issued no final statement — unless you count her tweets. It was a change for Indiana's last elected state superintendent of public instruction…
School districts across the country are changing their plans with the new year, with some deciding to prolong remote instruction and others moving to reopen classrooms. Tenuous schedules are expected to remain fluid as districts weigh rising coronavirus cases in…
Brianna Davis, a history and government teacher at Rancho Campana High School in Camarillo, was showing a readout of the Declaration of Independence with her students online when she began receiving news alerts about the violent siege on Capitol Hill — live…
New Jersey will not require high school seniors to pass any tests in order to graduate this year, and teachers will not be rated on students’ academic growth, Gov. Phil Murphy said Monday, nodding to the ongoing disruption of the…
Halfway into the school year, Michigan students are failing classes at higher rates, concerning educators who say it’s more evidence of the coronavirus’s disruption of learning. About 20% of elementary and middle school students and up to 35% of high…
Public health experts say it’s long past time to build up readily available tools to track student infections and help prevent potential school outbreaks. They are insisting on a national strategy to bring rapid testing to students and teachers —…
Austin Beutner, the superintendent of the Los Angeles Unified School District, said Monday that students will have to receive the inoculation once it is available before heading back into the classroom, according to a report.
As students disembarked yellow buses at socially distanced stops Monday morning outside Southside Occupational Academy High School, a staff member took their temperatures with a handheld scanner. Once cleared, each student walked alone through one of several designated entrances to…
Maine's second-largest city, which is home to a large number of residents from Somalia, is adding two holidays to the school calendar to mark the Muslim holiday known as Eid. The School Committee voted 8-1 to recognize two festivals as…
Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker on Friday announced expanded coronavirus testing measures intended to encourage more schools to shift to in-person learning. Weekly pool testing is expected to start within the next month, Baker said during a press conference. The announcement comes about…
A Pennsylvania teacher has been suspended for participating in the DC riots on Wednesday. The educator was not identified but works for the Allentown School District, the Morning Call reported Friday, citing a letter from Superintendent Thomas Parker.
In a turnaround from recent dire predictions, Gov. Gavin Newsom’s proposed budget boosts next year’s funding for K-12 school districts and includes emergency grants to reopen campuses as soon as possible — part of a sweeping effort to address learning loss and…
“Many students will be happy to go back to their campuses,” said Chris Bigenho, Lewisville ISD’s virtual learning academy director. “The question is: what do we do with the students who did find that sweet spot in the online environment?”
As millions of students return to virtual classrooms after the holidays, new research reveals how the coronavirus pandemic has disrupted learning and skills retention nationwide that experts say could take years to overcome. In a nod to the concerns, President-elect Joe Biden on Friday…
