With vaccinations on the rise, talk turns on how to safely reopen the country, especially schools. Throughout the U.S., teachers' unions are negotiating with school districts on how best to bring students back to class. Local governments are getting so frustrated about lengthy inaction that some are even suing the districts. Take a closer look at the reopening debate, what President Biden's position is, and how some of the largest school districts in the country are tackling this issue.
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If there’s one thing everyone seems to agree about during the Covid-19 pandemic, it’s that we have to eventually reopen schools for in-person teaching. Where there’s less agreement is what, exactly, is required to make that possible. Some of that disagreement bubbled up in the past few weeks, as …
School closures across the country and a lack of in-person learning due to the coronavirus is "a national emergency," President Biden stressed in a …
The federal government plans to release new guidance next week about how to safely reopen schools in the midst of the pandemic — guidelines that could add new grist to a debate over whether schools should wait until teachers are vaccinated before requiring their return to the classroom. As the …
California mom Megan Bacigalupi has had enough. She wants her kindergartner and second-grader back in their Oakland classrooms. But the coronavirus is spreading too quickly to open schools in Alameda County, based on current state standards. And the local teachers union hasn’t agreed to go back – …
Federal health officials at the CDC this week called for children to return to American classrooms as soon as possible. In an essay in the Journal of the American Medical Association, they wrote that the “preponderance of available evidence” from the fall semester had reassured the agency that with …
SAN FRANCISCO (BCN) The San Francisco Unified School District took a major step Saturday toward reopening schools by reaching a tentative agreement with a group of labor unions on health and safety standards for in-person learning for students in all grades from preschool through high school. The …
Gov. Gavin Newsom said he believes schools can begin to reopen even if all teachers are not yet vaccinated against COVID-19, provided that proper safety measures and supports are in place — although some teachers unions, including United Teachers Los Angeles, have said vaccinations should be a …
CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot touted a preliminary agreement with the teachers union over COVID-19 safety protocols on Sunday, potentially averting a strike in the nation’s third-largest school district. Some students could return to classrooms as soon as Thursday, with the reopening …
Enrollment at New York City's public schools declined to 960,000 students, or a 4 percent loss amid the pandemic, preliminary data shows. NEW YORK …
CNN — Some New York City middle school students in grades six through eight will return to classrooms on February 25, Mayor Bill de Blasio said Monday. About 62,000 middle school students who opted for in-person learning will return that day, said NYC Department of Education deputy press secretary …
The city’s proposed framework to resolve the months-long deadlock over how to safely reopen Chicago Public Schools would start phasing students back …
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On Monday, the Cheltenham School District will reopen classrooms for the first time since emptying them almost a year ago as COVID-19 hit the …
The Biden administration will soon begin collecting data from thousands of U.S. schools to find out how they have been affected by the pandemic, …
As the debate over reopening America's classrooms heats up, one overlooked factor is the significant racial gap in whether parents are ready to send …
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