After one week of in-person classes, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill closed its doors to stop uncontrolled spread of COVID-19. Four hotspots surfaced in student housing and a fraternity on that campus. Make no mistake. A similar story will likely play out at the University of Kansas […]
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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 […]
First, the University of North Carolina. Now, North Carolina State University. A day after university officials in Chapel Hill decided to pivot to online classes after at least four clusters of outbreaks of COVID-19 in student living spaces, the Raleigh university reported its first cluster of positive cases that included some of […]
A second major university is suspending classes right after the start of the new academic year due to a COVID-19 outbreak. The University of Notre Dame paused in-person instruction Tuesday, a day after a similar move by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Notre Dame is putting the classes online […]
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 […]
Since Chinese officials implemented the first coronavirus lockdown in the city of Wuhan in January, there have been more than 21.7 million cases of COVID-19 across the planet. More than 776,000 people have died from the disease, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University. Efforts to curb the outbreak have led […]
HAMPTON BAYS, NY — With schools set to reopen soon, two new community forums to discuss the Hampton Bays Public School district’s plan have been scheduled. The district, which held a first meeting on July 31, has planned additional forums for Wednesday, August 19 at 6 p.m. and Friday, August […]
Starting in April, 22 European countries began sending children back to school in waves. The specific safety measures implemented across the COVID-ravaged continent differed, but none approached the reopening of schools as anything close to “normal.” Under strict protocols imposed by the French government, for example, parents were required to […]
ROCK HILL, S.C. (AP) — Helena Miller listened to teachers, terrified to reenter classrooms, and parents, exhausted from trying to make virtual learning work at home. She heard from school officials who spent hundreds of hours on thousands of details — buses, classrooms, football, arts, special education. She spent countless […]
Over 20.5 million people across the globe have been diagnosed with COVID-19, the disease caused by the new respiratory virus, according to data compiled by the Center for Systems Science and Engineering at Johns Hopkins University. The actual numbers are believed to be much higher due to testing shortages, many […]
ARIZONA — As virtual learning has started in school districts across the state, parents, educators, doctors and the government all disagree on the best way to move forward for the sake of Arizona’s students. Parents have rallied for schools to reopen while educators and doctors have said the government has […]
Though the coronavirus is still, as President Trump put it last week, a “thing,” universities around the country are opening for the fall semester, albeit with an array of restrictions in place that are intended to tamp down the virus’ spread among students and faculty. But those restrictions seem to […]
As Florida schools get ready to reopen for in-person instruction five days a week, one teacher is staging a protest in a way that’s captured a lot of attention and resonated with other educators. Whitney Reddick, 33, a teacher in Jacksonville, Florida, wrote a mock obituary for herself, which she […]
NEW YORK CITY — Parents and teachers, it’s time to cram on New York City’s school reopening plan. The city’s Department of Education dropped the 109-page plan online Friday afternoon — a day that saw Gov. Andrew Cuomo officially give schools the green light to reopen, as well as a […]
Making the decision to send your children back to school in August or September is starting to feel like the most complicated choice parents have ever made for their kids. As we watch the bad news pour in from the first districts to try reopening, the debate rages on in […]
Donald Trump and Betsy Devos may want to dictate how — and if — schools reopen this fall, but in most states and cities those decisions will be made by a different group of elected officials, the more than 90,000 school board members nationwide. Across the country, school board members, joined […]
The Savannah native, a young Black child, is the youngest person in the state to die from the disease As the state of Georgia prepares to reopen schools, a 7-year-old boy has died from complications of coronavirus. The boy, from near Savannah, was Black. He is the youngest person in […]
INDIANAPOLIS — It was the purple Powerade that convinced her. Kennedy Heim’s first day of high school was last Thursday. By the weekend, her school in central Indiana had already closed its doors, after a staff member tested positive for the coronavirus and other employees were required to quarantine. Kennedy’s […]
(Bloomberg) — Governor Andrew Cuomo’s decision on whether to reopen New York City’s schools is among the most consequential he has had to make in months of grappling with the Covid-19 pandemic. Beyond the risks to public health, at stake is the education of 1.1 million students, the livelihoods of […]
SAN MATEO COUNTY, CA — If the San Mateo County wants to hold classes in schools instead of online this fall, State epidemiologist Dr. Erica Pan on Tuesday outlined the state’s waiver process for K-6 schools. San Mateo County is currently on California’s COVID-19 coronavirus “Watch List.” Pan said K-6 […]