Here’s what you need to know: Students at Normont Elementary on the first day of school in Los Angeles on Aug. 16.Credit…Allison Zaucha for The New York Times Los Angeles is poised to become the first major school district in the nation to mandate coronavirus vaccines for students 12 and older who are attending class … Read more
Nabria Varner, 13, was in her sophomore week of high school when she heard gunshots in her building. Her mother, Sashua Patterson, was sitting at home working remotely when she got the call. “She was scared. She said, ‘Mom, please get me,’” Patterson said. Nabria, who had finally returned to face-to-face classes after distance learning … Read more
Here’s what you need to know: Gov. Jay Inslee of Washington visiting a special education classroom at Phantom Lake Elementary School in Bellevue in March.Credit…Ellen M. Banner/The Seattle Times, via Associated Press All teachers and school personnel in Washington State — including coaches, bus drivers and volunteers — will need to be fully vaccinated as … Read more
In June 2019, shortly after James Whitfield, a black educator, was hired as the principal of a middle school in Colleyville, Texas, a school district administrator called and asked him to post photos of him and his wife on Facebook. who is white and hugs each other intimately on a beach. Wondering why someone had … Read more
Albert Bourla, CEO of Pfizer, said Tuesday the company had been mandated to ship 1.6 billion doses of its Covid-19 vaccine worldwide this year and the company expects to deliver at least 3 billion doses of the vaccine by 2022 to produce. The company is in talks with countries for multi-year contracts with potential delivery. … Read more
The CDC has issued revised recommendations that mark a departure from the 6-foot distancing standard that has severely limited the number of students some schools can accept. (19th March)
As schools re-open across the country, there’s one thing that has not gone away: lockdown drills All of Van Duyn Elementary School in Syracuse, New York, went eerily quiet. On that cold November afternoon in 2019, there was no sound in the school’s hallways except for the echoing of footsteps, going door to door between … Read more
I still remember the disgusting feeling that consumed me when I put my daughter on a school bus two years ago and sent her to the front yard. I thought I had until college when I dropped her off to begin her adult life before I felt this fear again. Instead, it returned last month … Read more