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He added that many schools “are already looking beyond the immediate issues related to returning students to their classrooms” and developing plans to assess and address the pandemic-related impact on student learning and mental health.
Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam has discussed extending the current academic year into summer and instituting year-round school to make up for learning loss.
“We’re seeing a decline in academic performance, and we’re seeing increased behavioral problems and mental health issues, so I’m glad that our children are getting back into the classroom because that is where they need to be,” Mr. Northam said this week at a press conference.
John Hayden Johnson Middle School Credit: Darrow Montgomery
Denied leave requests. Required evening and weekend work. Demoralized educators. More than 20 staff members at John Hayden Johnson Middle School met with DC Public Schools Chancellor
Lewis Ferebee, Cluster IX Instructional Superintendent
David Pinder, and Ward 8 Councilmember
Trayon White on Oct. 9, 2020, to share these grievances about their new principal,
Dwan Jordon.
“It’s time for him to go,” a staff member said near the end of the three-hour meeting. (All staff members mentioned in this story requested anonymity for fear of personal or professional retaliation from Jordon. Some feared they’d be branded as troublemakers.) “Right now, Johnson is not what Johnson used to be, or what Johnson is known to be.”
Federal COVID relief plan includes $130 billion to help schools reopen
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By Kaitlyn Cupelli
WASHINGTON (March 2, 2021) President Joe Biden s $130 billion school reopening plan focuses on making schools safer for teachers and students, although returning to school remains a contentious and difficult issue.
Reopening the majority of K-8 schools within his first 100 days in office is a key part of the president s $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan passed by the House on Friday on a party-line vote and now under consideration in the Senate. We can do this if we give the school districts, the schools themselves, the communities, and the states the clear guidance they need, as well as the resources they need that they can t afford right now because of the economic dilemma we are in, Biden said in January.
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