Staff at MacFarlane Park Elementary work on safety and distancing procedures ahead of students returning for in-person instruction, in Tampa, Fla., Aug. 17, 2020. (Octavio Jones/The New York Times) MIAMI — Of all the ways to describe the fraught decision to reopen schools during a pandemic, Gov. Ron DeSantis of […]
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IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — An aggressive push by Iowa’s pro-Trump governor to reopen schools amid a worsening coronavirus outbreak has descended into chaos, with some districts and teachers rebelling and experts calling the scientific benchmarks used by the state arbitrary and unsafe. The clash in the Midwest has illustrated […]
ALBUQUERQUE, NEW MEXICO – AUGUST 17: A student walks on campus classes begin amid the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic on the first day of the fall 2020 semester at the University of New Mexico on August 17, 2020 in Albuquerque, New Mexico. To help prevent the spread of COVID-19, the university […]
Parents across America are facing the pandemic school year feeling overwhelmed, anxious and abandoned. With few good options for support, the vast majority have resigned themselves to going it alone, a new survey for The New York Times has found. Just one in seven parents said their children would be […]
One of the smartest money moves a young person can make is to invest in a Roth IRA — and setting one up is easy. Follow the rules, and any money you put into one of these retirement-savings accounts grows absolutely tax free: You won’t owe Uncle Sam a dime […]
Students take part in a protest in Leeds yesterday despite the A-levels U-turn – Danny Lawson /PA Universities ‘will struggle to cope’ with student influx After the A-levels climbdown, universities have told the Government they will need more money if they are to take more students this year. Vice-chancellors met officials for […]
Aug 18, 2020 (Thomson StreetEvents) — Edited Transcript of OneSmart International Education Group Ltd earnings conference call or presentation Tuesday, August 18, 2020 at 12:00:00pm GMT OneSmart International Education Group Limited – Chief Strategic Officer, CFO & Director Good day, and welcome to the OneSmart International Education Group Limited Financial […]
RIVERHEAD, NY — With schools set to reopen soon, nine parent information sessions have been scheduled to discuss the Riverhead Central School district’s plan. In preparing for the opening of its seven schools, district officials scheduled the nine school-specific parent information Zoom meetings; the meetings are in addition to the […]
Sacramento County health officials on Tuesday ordered Capital Christian School to stop on-campus instruction, saying the school was violating state and local coronavirus orders by claiming to be a day care center. Under emergency orders issued by Gov. Gavin Newsom, Sacramento County schools are not yet allowed to open for […]
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HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY, FL — A group of parents has filed a lawsuit against the Hillsborough County School District objecting to the district’s policy that all students, staff and visitors wear face masks at school. Hillsborough County will begin the school year Monday with all students learning online from their homes. […]
Beginning your first year of medical school is daunting. Beginning your first year of med school in a pandemic, faced with varying degrees of remote learning, is even more daunting. By and large, medical schools have made significant adjustments to their first-year curriculums to accommodate the specific challenges of social […]
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — As the U.S. marks the 100th anniversary of women’s suffrage, many event organizers, mindful that the 19th Amendment originally benefited mostly white women, have been careful to present it as a commemoration, not a celebration. The amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified on Aug. 18, […]
Switching from in-person to online schooling has been hard on many families – and on their budgets. About one-quarter of parents say they’ve gone into debt to pay for their kids’ at-home school expenses, with a large share blaming the cost of paying for their kids’ breakfasts and lunches when […]
DEARBORN, MI — Dearborn schools announced Tuesday that the first week of online school days will be beginning a little later and that the district will begin with half days. Classes for all Dearborn Public School students will be a half day for the week of Aug. 31, to Sept. […]
Here are the top business, market, and economic stories you should be watching today in the UK, Europe, and abroad: Persimmon back to pre-pandemic building levels Outsourcing giant Capita (CPI.L) fell to a half-year loss after the COVID-19 pandemic derailed the progress of its transformation plan. Revenue in the six […]
As children and teachers started returning to classrooms over the past few weeks, new cases of COVID-19 emerged, forcing some schools to temporarily shift to online-learning only and hundreds of students to quarantine at home until their health was assured. While those developments have been well-documented, it’s what remains unknown […]