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Kindergarteners wear masks while listening to their teacher amid the COVID-19 pandemic at Washington Elementary School Wednesday, Jan. 12, 2022 (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)
Radio Times
Health

Should school mask mandates be lifted?

Governors in several states have rolled back mask mandates for schools but is it too soon in the pandemic to end universal masking in classrooms?

Air Date: February 10, 2022 10:00 am

Listen 49:00
People gather outside for a protest over a Florida bill
NPR
Education

‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill would limit discussion of sexuality and gender in Florida schools

The bills would also give parents the ability to sue schools if they believed the schools violated any provisions of the law.

4 years ago

Pre-K students wear face masks
Education

N.J. parents have mixed feelings as state plans to lift school mask mandate

Some parents cautiously welcomed the news, while others were concerned that kids will be put at risk. Another group will press on in a legal fight.

4 years ago

Students change classes at a public school in Pennsylvania. (Jessica Kourkounis for Keystone Crossroads)
Keystone Crossroads
Education

GOP makes case for school choice, not money in Pa. funding trial

Witnesses include a Christian private school leader and the executive director of the House Appropriations Committee.

4 years ago

Tara Matise teaches her prekindergarten students virtually in her classroom
Keystone Crossroads
Education

Philly schools say cloth masks no longer enough for in-person classes

The district says cloth masks are no longer considered effective, and will be distributing KN95s to school staff.

4 years ago

An illustration of children riding in bowls amid a tide of cereal
NPR
Health

Some families are being forced to choose between remote learning and school meals

Many families with low incomes who want their children to keep learning remotely are losing access to a federal program that helped them pay for meals.

4 years ago

An illustration of teachers struggling to hold a school on their shoulders
NPR
Education

More than half of teachers are looking for the exits, poll says

A new poll from the nation's largest teachers union finds burnout is widespread, and more educators saying they're thinking about leaving.

4 years ago

School District of Philadelphia headquarters
Keystone Crossroads
Education

Philly school board narrows list of candidates for next superintendent

Twenty one percent of qualified candidates have leadership experience in the School District of Philadelphia.

4 years ago

Pennsylvania Democrats are proposing a historic bump in school spending. (Johnny Perez-Gonzalez/WHYY)
Keystone Crossroads
Politics & Policy

Pa. Democrats set budget priorities with ‘historic’ education spending proposal

The plan comes about a week before Gov. Tom Wolf unveils the final budget proposal of his two-term tenure.

4 years ago

A fair funding protest outside Philadelphia City Hall in 2019. (Harvey Finkle/The Notebook)
Radio Times
Community

The Regional Roundup – January 31st

Defendants present their case in PA's landmark school funding lawsuit. And, a Delaware bill giving terminally ill residents the right to medical aid in dying gains momentum.

Air Date: January 31, 2022 10:00 am

Listen 49:12
TOPSHOT - For sale masks are seen displayed on a clothesline in the front yard of a house in Los Angeles on July 20, 2020. - The number of COVID-19 hospitalizations in Los Angeles County were at their highest level at the weekend since the pandemic began, as 15 children were diagnosed with a rare and potentially deadly virus-related inflammatory syndrome.
NPR
Courts & Law

After 2 years, growing calls to take masks off children in school

4 years ago

Dr. William Hite
Education

Superintendent Hite named next CEO of national education nonprofit

Hite will continue to lead the School District of Philadelphia through the end of the academic year.

4 years ago

File photo: Philadelphia Superintendent William Hite. (Nathaniel Hamilton for WHYY)
Keystone Crossroads
Education

COVID closures, UPenn’s deal with Lea dominate first Philly school board meeting of 2022

The district will enter into a memorandum of agreement with Penn, which will direct about $800,000 per year to the K-8 school in West Philadelphia.

4 years ago

A Tennessee school district has voted to ban a Pulitzer Prize winning graphic novel about the Holocaust due to “inappropriate language” and an illustration of a nude woman. (wikimedia commons)
Education

Book about Holocaust banned in Tennessee school district

A Tennessee school district has voted to ban a Pulitzer Prize winning graphic novel about the Holocaust due to “inappropriate language" and an illustration of a nude woman.

4 years ago

Fairfax County Public School buses are lined up at a maintenance facility
Keystone Crossroads
Education

Parents wary of COVID turn to lawsuits as school districts ease masking rules

One lawsuit out of Montgomery County says axing mask policies forces parents of medically fragile school children to pull their children out of in-person learning.

4 years ago

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