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Trump says L.A. schools making a 'mistake' by delaying reopening of schools because of coronavirus risk

/PRNewswire/ -- Dekalb County School District employees can gain teacher certification and earn a degree thanks to a new partnership with Clayton State...

Three teachers in rural Arizona contracted COVID-19 after working together in a classroom. One of them died. NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Jena Martinez-Inzunza about her experience.

District 97 superintendent to remain in Oak Park after interviewing with Wisconsin school district

Dr. Leana Wen, an emergency physician and former health commissioner for Baltimore, chats with Know Your Value founder Mika Brzezinski about the reopening of schools amid COVID-19.

His three-year contract provides $165,000 base pay with possible annual performance raises. It also includes benefits and a $750 monthly vehicle allowance, plus mileage for official travel.

Two months ago, California looked like a coronavirus success story. Now cases and hospitalizations are up and the state is rolling back its reopening.

We have a responsibility to our community that requires us to come to this difficult decision, Alaniz said in a letter to parents and staff.

Despite record increase in deaths, Florida still plans for its schools to resume in-person learning in August.

Some districts looking at a mix of online and classroom learning as pandemic eases

The international scholars the administration was threatening to send home are vital to American innovation and competitiveness.

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) Portland Public Schools has set a tentative Sept. 14 start date for the 2020-21 academic year, but the states largest district will only have students attend...

Hinsdale High School District 86 is preparing its return to school plan for August, which will include at least one day a week of remote learning.

The reality is that the anticipated in-person experiences planned for this fall cant and wont meet the expectations of our students and their families.

A judge announced Tuesday the administration is rescinding its directive blocking international students from staying in the United States while taking online-only classes.

Tulane University is threatening to expel students for partying in large groups during the Chinese virus pandemic. The school is also encouraging students to report their peers to the university police for engaging in "problematic behavior."

The District 203 deadline to register for the online academy is July 22; District 204s deadline to reserve a spot in the academy is Aug. 1.

Locked out of federal assistance, many are subsisting on one meal a day as charities are overwhelmed by demand

BACK TO SCHOOL: Fort Bend ISD trustees review plans to re-open schools next months via zoom teleconference

The need to teach the history behind the news has rarely been clearer. Heres how teachers are getting ready for those tough conversations.

/PRNewswire/ -- Youth Entrepreneurs (YE) is excited to welcome more than 600 teachers to the YEedu conference. The annual conference will take place July 14-16...

Marylands leading teachers union says the upcoming school year should begin with online learning because of concerns about the coronavirus

Alabama, Florida and North Carolina reported record daily increases in COVID-19 deaths on Tuesday, a trio of grim milestones that follows the first nationwide increase in fatalities since mid-April as some U.S. states rushed to reopen.

With coronavirus infections and deaths rising in many parts of the country, U.S. educators from California to Wisconsin are opting for online learning rather than a return to classrooms when the school year begins in a few weeks.

Discussion between teachers and children about writing is a crucial tool to help pupils learn about grammar, a new study shows.

On one side are parents saying, let kids be kids. They object to masks and social...

/PRNewswire/ -- Registration is now open for the SDE Virtual National Conference, to be held August 3-4, 2020. The live, online event will feature interactive,...

Donald Trump should take some time to learn about Kimberley Lopez Chavez Byrd before he tries to bully schools in to reopening.

In a news conference, President Donald Trump said schools should reopen after he was askedabout teacher fears of returning to the classroom.

/PRNewswire/ -- Today NewSchools Venture Fund released a new brief examining multi-year academic data and student self-reports identifying what matters most in...

State groups say remote instruction should continue through at least the first semester.

The federal abdication of leadership leaves state and local officials on their own.

With the new school year fast approaching, some U.S. districts have announced plans to reopen for students who want to attend in-person class, while others will only offer online instruction or a mix of classroom and remote learning.

North Carolina Governor Ray Cooper said on Tuesday that he was ordering public schools to reopen for classroom instruction in August if they are able to maintain social distancing for students and staff and meet other conditions.

Alabama, Florida and North Carolina reported record daily increases in COVID-19 deaths on Tuesday, a trio of grim milestones that follows the first nationwide increase in fatalities since mid-April as some U.S. states rushed to reopen.

Per the claim, which circulated widely among U.S. teachers and parents, that would mean 14,740 children and teens would die.

As the debate rages over how to safely reopen U.S. schools this autumn, one factor weighs heavily: the nation's 98,000 public "K-12" schools are a cornerstone of the economy, and a massive jobs engine.

The covid-19 pandemic has up-ended our educational system. In the middle of last semester, many students and teachers had to shift from traditional school environments to 100% online learning, with little or no warning and no time to prepare. The result has exposed just how pervasive technological inequality is in the U.S., and how families lack of access to computers and reliable internet is more than just a problem. Its a disaster.

On July 13, the San Diego and Los Angeles School Districts released a statement that they will begin their school year with online-only classes this fall.

For classes 1 to 8, the HRD Ministry has recommended two online sessions of up to 45 minutes each while for classes to 9 to 12, four sessions of 30-45 minutes duration have been recommended

While all care must be taken to ensure that their names are not struck off the rolls (as the possibility of their return anytime is always there), their numbers may be reported class-wise to the Directorate of Education to compensate for any input costs to be incurred by the school, said the HRD Ministry

At a press conference Tuesday, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal highlighted that government schools had registered a better pass percentage, at almost 98%, than private schools for the fifth year in a row.

Alabama, Florida and North Carolina reported record daily increases in deaths from COVID-19 on Tuesday, grim new milestones that mark a second wave of infections surging across much of the United States.

The change comes as President Tramp pressures schools to reopen nationwide.

Hillary Clinton appeared to sour at the Trump administration urging schools to reopen for in-person learning in the Fall.

Officials in Broward County Florida are not optimistic that coronavirus cases will decline low enough to reopen schools at the start of the semester.

Sen. Peter Harckham has introduced a bill that would pressure NY schools to remove team names, mascots or logos deemed racially offensive.

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The Los Angeles Teachers Union is demanding that schools not open in the fall unless charter schools are closed and the police are defunded.

Dr. Marc Siegel called on Gov. Gavin Newsom to open public schools in the state, citing research that shows children are not the primary spreaders of COVID-19.

Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos is facing backlash for demanding schools reopen without a plan to do so safely.

One of the highest scorers is Shailja Kaushik (17), a humanities student from RPVV Yamuna Vihar who scored 98.2% which made her the humanities topper across all the RPVVs.

Until in 2015, Syiemlieh felt that she herself needed to get back to school. I enrolled myself for evening classes at the National Institute of Open Schooling at Umsning, and two years later, I managed to pass Class X, she said, I had to juggle both the job and classes, so it was difficult.

Research showing the key features of healthy relationships will be used in schools around the country to help teenagers learn how to build healthy relationships of their own.

CBSE 10th result 2020: There has been a record high of over 5 per cent in the CBSE class 12 results this year. Last year, 91.1 per cent students cleared the exam which was about a four per cent increase from 2018 and the trend is expected to go upwards this year too.

If the 11-plus is really a test of ability, not tutoring, why are ministers considering delaying it to give children time to prepare?

Mizoram board secretary Lalthangbika confirmed that a total of 12,324 students had appeared in the state HSSLC exams this year.

Students who missed out on six months of education due to lockdown will fall behind, fear reports authors

The number of cases are increasing day by day. So, it is not possible to conduct final-year university exams as per University Grants Commission (UGC) guidelines, said Uday Samant, Minister for Higher and Technical Education.

Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal congratulated the students. Congratulations to my Team Education, all students, teachers, parents and education officers. Proud of you all, tweeted Kejriwal.

Sen. Jim McClendon, R-Springville, said he doesnt understand why the plan, which was crafted by the Alabama School Nurses Association isnt being embraced by state Superintendent Eric Mackey.