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COVID and Schools
The city spent millions of dollars on air purifiers in schools to combat COVID. But the devices should also help with pollutants like wildfire smoke.
Episode 8 of P.S. Weekly tackles the emotional and social fallout of the pandemic, looking at mental health issues that left many students unable to attend class.
A preliminary injunction says the department must restore access to school pandemic relief money in 16 states and D.C.
The lawsuit from 16 Democratic state attorney generals and Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro is part of a salvo of legal challenges to the Trump administration’s education directives.
Illinois says the federal government’s plan to rescind $77 million in COVID relief funds will impact programs in 27 school districts statewide.
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.