This article was written by Henry Goldman of Bloomberg.org on September 20, 2021. New York City will increase testing of public-school students for Covid-19 to weekly from every other week, after 77 classrooms were closed and one school was shut down due to the virus. At the same time, the city will relax its student […]
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This article was written by Nicole Lopez-Alvar of Local10.com on September 17, 2021. South Florida Autism Charter Schools (SFACS) for children and young adults with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in West Miami-Dade has officially held its ribbon-cutting ceremony with school staff, students, Miami-Dade County government officials, and dignitaries. Miami-Dade Superintendent Alberto Carvalho and Miami-Dade County […]
This article was written by Ariana Eunjung Cha of The Washington Post on September 16, 2021. Greg Otto conducts risk assessments for a living, but the cybersecurity consultant from Springfield, Va., never imagined he’d have to do one every time his daughter, 6, and son, 4, stepped outside the boundaries of their home. Playing with […]
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 […]
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 […]