Administrators are scrambling to stay ahead of the virus — and to keep children learning.
At a 7-plus hour oversight hearing, city leaders, parents and teachers split over how well schools have operated in the first few weeks of the academic year.
School officials have spent months refining guidelines and other strategies to try to limit the spread of the coronavirus.
Eligible D.C. student-athletes must also be vaccinated to participate in school sports.
Some D.C. parents remain frustrated by how campuses are handling quarantines and data shows the District has failed so far to reach its goals for testing students for the coronavirus.
She joined the Montgomery school board in 1998 and had served as board president five times.
The school district's new policy only requires close contacts of a student showing virus symptoms to quarantine if the student tests positive or has a known exposure to the virus.
The plan includes efforts such as creating a district health officer position, an advisory committee and a dashboard to report virus cases and quarantines, but it does not address any direct changes to the district's quarantine policy.
Once a carefree period, school lunch now is a source of anxiety for some families returning to school buildings.
Districts are scrambling for virtual learning plans and substitutes. Parents are scrambling for child care.
Rocketship Public Schools says that in the first two weeks of the academic year 27 unvaccinated employees have been quarantined.
The ongoing pandemic continues to disrupt every aspect of education, from grading to lunchtime.
Montgomery County school board removes testing option for workers, says stronger action is needed as delta variant spreads.
The announcement comes amid anger from parents.
Joining other systems, Prince George’s County opens for full-scale, in-person instruction.
So far, just over 200 D.C. Public Schools students have been approved for virtual learning.
A report alleges that officials rigged grades and inflated enrollment.
