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OVERVIEW
The House Budget Committee on Monday advanced President Joe Biden's $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill on a 19-16 party line vote. The House is set to pass the bill on Friday or Saturday.
117th CONGRESS
The House Budget Committee advanced the $1.9 trillion...
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Remember when you were a child at the amusement park, and the ride operator said if you want to get off...
source: By Brian Stack
02/18/21 — Superintendent, Paradise Valley Unified School District, Phoenix, Arizona
02/18/21 — Superintendent, Evansville Community School District, Evansville, Wisconsin
02/18/21 — Superintendent, City School District of New Rochelle, New Rochelle,...
source: ALAS
When schools closed last spring, educators and policymakers worried about what this would mean for multilingual learners, and their concerns are still very real. English learners make up 10 percent of the national student population, with many more students being fully bilingual,...
source: District Administration Magazine
White House officials stressed that while they do not believe teachers need to be vaccinated in order to reopen schools, they think teachers should be prioritized for vaccinations like frontline workers. "Even though we don't feel...
source: CNN
After nearly a year of online learning, parents in the Washington region were thrilled to hear announcements from public schools, some of them tumbling out rapid-fire in recent days, that in-person learning will resume next month...
source: The Washington Post
For months, President Joe Biden has been urging schools to reopen, and promised that guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention would help them do so safely. At the same time, public health experts including...
source: The Washington Post
When the coronavirus pandemic forced schools across the country to close last spring, many district leaders were gripped with anxiety because their teachers weren't ready to pivot to remote learning.
source: Education Week
Students felt they learned more this fall, even with COVID's disruptions, than they did in the immediate wake of the spring outbreak, a new survey has found. 61% of the 85,000 students surveyed said they learned a lot every day this fall, an increase from 39% who said the...
source: District Administration Magazine
Parents of English learners in one Southern California high school district are training fellow parents how to help their children graduate high school and go to college. Part of a three-month training program called Padres Promotores...
source: EdSource
To protect students who are learning English from being forced into schools for the sole purpose of testing, and to enable parents to withdraw them from testing if they do not feel safe sending their children to school, the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law,...
source: Language Magazine
The research comes at a time when internet access is the difference between school or no school for millions of U.S. students due to the ongoing COVID-19 crisis. Though advocacy group EducationSuperHighway declared "mission accomplished"...
source: K-12 DIVE
K-12 educators haven't, for the most part, received basic cybersecurity training. Just 43% said their schools had provided such training, while 48% said they hadn't and eight percent said they didn't know or weren't sure. And even though 54 percent of teachers said they...
source: THE Journal
