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Students at Elmwood Park High School stepped out of classrooms late Tuesday morning and demonstrated in front of the school building, critical of school administrators amid safety concerns after a student was charged with having a loaded gun at school."They dropped the ball," Erick Codona said Tuesday about the Elmwood Park Community Unit School District 401 administration.

David Daniel knows his son needs help.The 8-year-old spent first grade in remote learning and several weeks of second grade in quarantine.The best way to catch him up, research suggests, is to tutor him several times a week during school.But his Indianapolis school offers Saturday or after-school tutoring - programs that don't work for Daniel, a single father.

Some parents have been forced to quit their jobs or scale back their hours to care for children who won't go to class, a Senate inquiry into the concerning trend of school refusal has been told.The mental health organisations Beyond Blue and the Black Dog Institute have shared their concern about how students are coping with returning to classrooms after Covid forced school closures and a switch to online learning, with worries about how to best support children struggling with anxiety, depression or separation issues.

High heat shut down schools in Grand Rapids, Mich., and Pittsburgh on Thursday, forcing students and teachers to stay at home in the face of rising temperatures and inadequate air conditioning.In Detroit, the conditions led administrators to close that city's schools three hours earlier than usual on Thursday, and similar plans were in place for Friday for the city's 53,000 students.

A judge entered a not guilty plea Monday for a man charged in the stabbing deaths of four University of Idaho students, setting the stage for a trial in which he could potentially face the death penalty.The Nov. 13, 2022, killings stunned the rural community of Moscow, Idaho, and prompted many students to leave campus early, switching to remote learning for the remainder of the semester.

The GOP-led house on Friday voted to advance controversial legislation aimed at providing parents with more information and control over what is being taught in public school classrooms.The Parents' Bill of Rights act narrowly passed in a vote of 213-208, with just five republicans - most of them members of the House Freedom Caucus - voting against it.

SCHAGHTICOKE - As a local school-based physical therapist, paperwork was often the last thing on Margaret Rice's mind.Her focus was instead on engaging and educating the children who filled her classroom - a juggling act that she said often left other tasks unchecked on her to-do list.Now, Rice owns and operates Your Therapy Source, an online resource that provides essential forms, activity ideas and worksheets in special education and pediatric, occupational and physical therapy for educators and parents, while also making all necessary state documentation for school-based therapists easy to find.

With another possible education workers' strike in Ontario Monday, school boards are once again making plans for how to cope if there's no deal reached with the province.The Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) gave a five-day strike notice on Wednesday after bargaining with the province broke down.

About 55,000 education workers represented by the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) will walk off the job Friday to protest against controversial anti-strike legislation from the Ontario government.The province is set to pass legislation Thursday that would impose a contract on education workers and ban them from striking by using what's called the notwithstanding clause, which allows the legislature to override portions of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms for a five-year term.

Joshua Roizman is a Gen Zer who started his career as a remote employee.He was excited about the freedom, but says the lack of in-person connection is hurting his career.Roizman tried to make connections by moving abroad and meeting up with other remote workers.This is an as-told-to essay based on an interview with Joshua Roizman, a 25-year-old Gen Z employee working a sales job at a software-development company, which is fully remote.

Bessie and illustrator Peter Glanting 's book documents the very recent past - one that each and every one of us just lived through - but Bessie's perspective is particularly valuable.First, he is immunocompromised.He has been living with brain cancer for over a decade and his health hangs in the balance.

The Archdiocese of New York hopes that a pilot program launching in Bedford Parkcan address pandemic-fueled that led to majors closures of Bronx Catholic schools over the past few years.The first of these Catholic education and family centers is expanding on education services offered at the 75-year-old St. Philip Neri School, a spokesperson for the Archdiocese told the Bronx Times.

A New York City teacher quit her job in March after 12 years at the school.She wanted a remote option and said she and her students thrived online early in the pandemic.The educator found a new position at a fully online public school.Once Kentucky Parkis got into the groove of remote work in 2020, she knew she didn't want to go back in person.

The 10-campus University of California system this month closed a loophole that could have let a student or department craft a stealth, fully online undergraduate degree through individually approved online courses.That loophole was closed with the approval of regulations which institute an undergraduate residency requirement.

For Emily Zurek Small, college did what it's supposed to do.Growing up in a small town in Northeast Pennsylvania, she had career and intellectual ambitions for which college is the clearest pathway.I just kind of always wanted to learn, she told me recently.I wanted to be able to have intelligent conversations with people and know about the world.

When the California Legislature reconvenes this week for a new biennial session it will have dozens of new faces and also dozens of old, unresolved issues.Housing shortages, inflation, homelessness and drought are among the larger ones, but none is more important than the state's crisis in public education.

COVID A new study found reading and math scores dropping, with lowest results amid Black and Hispanic students and in lower income towns and cities in Massachusetts.On average during the coronavirus pandemic, Massachusetts students lost 75% of a school year's worth of math learning and 41% of a year of reading, with Boston Public Schools students losing 85% of a year of a math, according to a new study by the Educational Opportunity Project at Stanford University.

Union leaders are due to meet the Education Secretary for talks in a bid to avert seven days of strike action over teachers' pay.Gillian Keegan has said she will work with head teachers to make sure schools are open for as many children as possible, but admitted she cannot guarantee there will be no closures.

Teachers in England and Wales have voted in favour of strikes in a dispute over pay.Nine out of 10 teacher members of the National Education Union (NEU) voted for strike action and the union passed the 50% ballot turnout required by law.The union has declared seven days of walkouts in February and March, but it has said any individual school will only be affected by four of the days.

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Barriers were erected outside of Queen's Park Thursday afternoon.(Robert Krbavac/CBC) Striking Ontario education workers are set to picket at politicians' offices across the province today, with a major demonstration planned for the legislature.That's where, a day earlier, the Progressive Conservative government enacted a law imposing contracts on 55,000 education workers represented by the Canadian Union of Public Employees and banned them from striking.

Moderna has become a well-known name thanks to its highly effective COVID-19 vaccine, based on mRNA technology.But even before the pandemic hit, the company was developing an mRNA-based vaccine against another scourge, respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), which primarily affects infants and the elderly.

Covid has changed the working lives of a big portion of our country - actually, the whole world.Half the people I know are now "Zoomers": visible only from the waist up during working hours.So, the question to my Zoomer friends is: Is that the way you want to spend the rest of your working life?

The state of California and the Los Angeles Unified School District achieved record-high graduation rates last year despite the lingering effects of the crippling pandemic and a historic spike in student absences, prompting both praise and skepticism over the new numbers.For the high school class that graduated in 2022, the percentage of students who earned a diploma in four years in Los Angeles Unified - the nation's second-largest school system - was 86%.

Here is the latest update on which schools are closed in Waltham Forest today (Image: Getty images) With snow settling across London this week, many schools in Waltham Forest will be closed again today.Here is the latest information on which schools in the borough are open and which are closed, giving their pupils a snow day.

Some schools in Islington are closed due to rail strikes and ice (Image: PA) Icy conditions have led to some schools remaining closed this morning.The Met Office has extended its weather warning for ice untill 11am today (December 13).It says that snow and icy patches will lead to difficult travel conditions.

Reading, 'riting, reducing pandemic-related learning loss.(Photographer: Michael Loccisano/Getty Images North America)Since the start of the pandemic, Congress has provided public school districts with $190 billion in relief funds, roughly triple what the federal government spends on K-12 education in a typical year.

One of the most devastating effects of the COVID-19 pandemic has been the debt it has created, a debt that we owe our kids that will be hard ever to pay back.In the past three years, much of what has occurred - school closings, lockdowns, remote learning - whether warranted or not, has had a profound academic and social effect on children, adolescents and young adults.

Growing numbers of universities across continental Europe are making plans to extend their Christmas holidays or to move teaching online in a bid to save on soaring energy bills.Higher education institutions across Slovakia are planning to shut a month early, on Nov. 17, to fend off an estimated 17 million euro ($18 million) hike in energy costs.

The Florida state Supreme Court announced Tuesday that it would hear a lawsuit against the University of South Florida over campus shutdowns and remote learning during the COVID-19 pandemic.The higher court could overturn an earlier decision by a circuit court in June that denied USF's motion for dismissal and paved the way for an eventual jury trial.

Cellphones - the ultimate distraction - keep children from learning, educators say.But in attempts to keep the phones at bay, the most vocal pushback doesn't always come from students.In some cases, it's from parents.Bans on the devices were on the rise before the COVID-19 pandemic.Since schools reopened, struggles with  student behavior and mental health have given some schools even more reason to restrict access.

Several Ontario school boards said Friday they will move to remote learning next week indefinitely if an education workers' strike continues.Thousands of Canadian Union of Public Employees workers  including education assistants, custodians and librarians  walked off the job earlier in the day and the union's leaders have said the job action will continue "until our members decide otherwise," despite a law banning them from striking and the possibility of fines.

The Canadian Union of Public Employees, which represents 55,000 workers such as educational assistants, custodians and early childhood educators, will be in a legal strike position as of Thursday, though it is still required to give five days' notice of any job action.(Bobby Hristova/CBC) Two Ontario school boards said Friday they will close schools if education workers go on a full strike next month, warning parents that they are "very concerned" about the possibility of job action.

Cellphones - the ultimate distraction - keep children from learning, educators say.But in attempts to keep the phones at bay, the most vocal pushback doesn't always come from students.In some cases, it's from parents.Bans on the devices were on the rise before the COVID-19 pandemic.Since schools reopened, struggles with  student behavior and mental health have given some schools even more reason to restrict access.

Three of San Jose's largest school districts received a total of more than $155 million in federal funding to tackle COVID-19.Those dollars have served as a lifeline to schools throughout the pandemic and since, but after 2024 that well of money will dry up.The federal funds have been allocated in three rounds throughout Santa Clara County school districts.

Fourth- and eighth-graders fell behind in reading and had the largest ever decline in math, according to a national educational assessment showing the devastating effect of the Covid-19 pandemic on America's children.The alarming findings are based on the National Assessment of Educational Progress reading and math exams, often called the Nation's Report Card and conducted by the National Center for Education Statistics, a branch of the Education Department.