This article was written by Jess Arnold of WUSA9 on September 15, 2021. Two DCPS parents wrote a letter to city officials sharing their families’ experiences and suggestions to make schools safer. Both Danica Petroshius and Shelley Carr-Brown have kids in sixth and eighth grade at Capitol Hill Montessori School…and both had kids test positive […]
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This article was written by Nader Issa of the Chicago Sun Times on September 14, 2021. A Southwest Side charter school is reverting to remote learning for two weeks after finding three confirmed COVID-19 cases in three different classrooms. Acero Schools, one of Chicago Public Schools’ largest charter operators, closed its Zizumbo campus in the […]
This article was written by Alex Zimmerman of the New York Chalkbeat on September 14, 2021. Staff at every New York City charter school will be required to be vaccinated against COVID-19 or face removal from their schools’ payroll, city officials announced Tuesday. Charter staff who work in schools that operate in city buildings were […]
This article was posted by Yasmeen Abutaleb, Laura Meckler and Valerie Strauss of The Washington Post on September 13, 2021. As more than 55 million children and teens pour back into classrooms this fall, a real-life experiment is taking place: Can schools stay open safely amid the aggressive spread of the delta variant? President Biden […]
This article was posted by Giulia Heyward of the New York Times on September 13, 2021. It’s been exactly 18 months since public schools in New York City shut down because of the rapid initial spread of the coronavirus. Over that time, students, parents and employees in the New York City school system, the nation’s largest, […]
This article was written by the Editorial Board of the NY Post on September 12, 2021. Cross your fingers that the city Department of Education manages to reopen schools Monday without any serious bungles. Questions range from the now-traditional bus snafus to how vaccine mandates will play out to availability of remote-learning for kids forced […]
This article was written by Christine Pitts and Bree Busseault of The 74 Million on September 12, 2021. This the first in a series of weekly analyses of COVID-19 policies in 100 large and high-profile school systems, produced by the Center on Reinventing Public Education at the University of Washington, Bothell. President Joe Biden’s push for […]
This article was posted on the Boston Globe by Stephanie Ebbert on September 11, 2021. How did support for charter schools — a polarizing issue in the last open race for mayor — surface as a high-profile topic in the current contest, even taking up air time in the final debate of the preliminary race? […]
This article was published on New York Daily News by Michael Elsen-Rooney on September 12, 2021. Queens mom Rasheedah Pierce knows first-hand the devastation that can follow when a contagious respiratory virus sneaks into a home with a medically vulnerable child. Five years ago, her 2-year-old son Kenneth — one of two twins who suffered […]
This article was published on WBUR by Carrie Jung on September 3, 2021. Ipswich resident Matthew Cullen said he knew he wanted to go to college since his early teens. “My friends and brother and sister went off to college, and I said, ‘Why can’t I?’ ” Cullen told lawmakers in a recent public hearing […]