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COVID and Schools
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.
‘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.