Last month, I was certain high school sports would play out in California this fall, even if in an abbreviated form. I wasn’t naive. I was hopeful, as were the sea of coaches, administrators, parents and student-athletes I regularly spoke to. I was encouraged because flattening the coronavirus curve meant […]
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California’s two largest public school districts, Los Angeles Unified and San Diego Unified, will hold classes completely online when teaching resumes in the fall, officials announced Monday as the coronavirus continues to surge around the nation. Together the two districts enroll about 825,000 students and are the largest in the […]
PALM BEACH, Fla. — On Wednesday, Erica Whitfield will cast her vote on whether to send Palm Beach County teachers and students back to the classroom amid a pandemic. The school board member says the choice has been anything but academic. COVID-19 snuck into the Whitfield house in April despite her family’s best […]
President Trump is seen outside the White House on July 11, 2020. Joshua Roberts/Getty The Los Angeles and San Diego unified school systems said they’ll be starting the fall semester off online in a joint statement. The announcement comes after President Donald Trump said he’d pressure states to reopen in-person […]
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The Los Angeles and San Diego school districts, the two largest in California with a combined K-12 student population of about 720,000, announced Monday they won’t bring students back to classrooms next month because of rising coronavirus hospitalizations and infection rates. School leaders said there is […]
The two largest school districts in California announced Monday that classes will be online-only at the start of the school year, citing “skyrocketing infection rates” of the coronavirus in their areas. The Los Angeles and San Diego unified school districts, which issued a joint announcement, will begin online instruction in […]
Two of the largest school districts in the U.S., the Los Angeles and San Diego unified school districts, said Monday that their academic years will start with only online instruction, as California continues to fight a surge of COVID-19 cases. The districts made the announcement in a joint statement and said their academic calendars will begin […]
As officials play political football with K-12 school re-openings, parents such as Johanne Davis are formulating their own game plans for the fall. “To exercise an abundance of caution, I’d like to keep my kids home with me where they’ll study online,” says Davis, a mother of three from Indian Land, South […]