Report: No Way to Reopen Schools Safely Without Federal Bailout. See more national education news here
By Lauren Camera • U.S. News & World Reports
IN ORDER TO ADHERE TO the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention safety recommendations for reopening, school districts will be forced to spend nearly $2 million per district that they hadn’t budgeted for – a cost so prohibitive that some are now scrapping plans for in-person classes entirely this fall.
“There are some saying, ‘It’s early, but I have to tell you, I don’t see how we could possibly open without additional funds,'” Daniel Domenech, executive director of AASA, the School Superintendents Association, says. “It’s becoming an overwhelming problem and many districts are considering returning to distance learning.”
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- Associated Press — Virus exposes sharp economic divide: College vs. non-college
- Education Week — WATCH: Teaching in the Time of Coronavirus
- Chalkbeat — The pandemic’s toll: nearly 500,000 public education jobs disappeared across U.S. in April
- The Hechinger Report — Are we ready? How we are teaching – and not teaching – kids about climate change
- NPR — Senate Panel To Hear From College Presidents About Resuming Classes
- The 74 — All In: A Southern California School With a Radical — and Successful — Vision for Students With Disabilities
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