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COVID and Schools
McMahon said the Education Department won’t honor Biden-era deadline extensions to spend the aid. School officials say they’ve committed the money and should be reimbursed.
Teachers don’t need to practice self-care. They need real change, Katie Hicks says.
Five years after the pandemic closed schools, some educators remain wistful for before times.
COVID closures left students behind and made school feel optional. They also ushered in a technological explosion.
The conservative group’s new training program seeks to drive activism against social and emotional learning in schools.
‘The pandemic has not only driven test scores down, but that decline masks a pernicious inequality that has grown,’ one author of the new report said.
A University of Colorado Boulder researcher said the study results show Zearn Math helped students, but other factors also likely contributed to math gains.
The special legislative session made it look easy, but a timeline shows the embrace of school vouchers was never a foregone conclusion.
The preliminary budget preserves funding for Summer Rising, but does not replace more than $100 million in expiring money for 3-K.
Many schools used federal COVID aid on longstanding, costly needs like new curriculum materials and buildings, a federal report says.