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Baltimore students who failed classes during the 2020-2021 school year will still pass on to the next grade level, the city's school board announced this week.

Parents should demand more. ADVERTISEMENT Another reason to hold off on celebrating is that in many places, huge percentages of students are opting out of in-person learning. Last week Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, finally stated that schools should be fully open — by fall. That assurance is too little and far too late. A year’s worth of ingrained risk aversion and hand-wringing by school leaders, teachers’ unions, and public health officials, fortifi...

America Federation of Teachers president Randi Weingarten joins The Story to discuss the return to in-person school American Federation of Teachers (AFT) president Randi Weingarten is facing criticism from parents and Republicans over a speech she gave in favor of fully reopening schools this fall.  Weingarten, and teachers unions generally, opposed returning to in-person learning for much of the pandemic. Weingartens late rebranding as a proponent of reopening schools prompted a fresh round o...

America Federation of Teachers president Randi Weingarten joins The Story to discuss the return to in-person school The president of America’s second-largest teachers union is calling on all schools to be open for "five days a week" of in-person learning for the next academic year.  Randi Weingarten, the head of the American Federation of Teachers, made the declaration Thursday as about only half of the nation’s school districts are back for fully in-person learning, according to data fr...

Patience And Progress As The Economy Reopens And Recovers, Federal Reserve Governor Lael Brainard, At "The Road To Recovery And Whats Next," A Virtual Conference Sponsored By The Society For Advancing Business Editing And Writing (Via Webcast) Date 11/05/2021 I want to thank Heather Long and the Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing for inviting me to join you today.1 Strong fiscal support and increasing vaccination rates drove a strong rebound in activity in the first quarter...

COVID-19 cases in Maine schools rise to highest levels of the pandemic School officials say the increase is a reflection of community spread, not transmission in schools, and several are continuing with plans to increase in-person learning. Share The number of coronavirus cases in Maine schools is rising as cases in the community remain high and as many students return to more in-person learning. The current case rate in schools is 45 per 10,000 students and staff over the last 30 days, accord...

Frustrated parents in San Francisco have coined a new phrase for their latest classroom reality: “Zoom in a Room."

Zoom in a Room: California ranks last in the country for reopening schools By Jocelyn Gecker, Janie Har and Amy Taxin Published  (Photo sent in by Karla Gonzalez) SAN FRANCISCO - Frustrated parents in San Francisco have coined a new phrase for their latest classroom reality: "Zoom in a Room." In Los Angeles, students can start going back to school in person, but more than half say they will stick with distance learning. More than a year after the coronavirus pandemic forced California’s clas...

Schools out for the teachers! Outrage as San Francisco parents are told to send their kids back to class but teachers will stay HOME and hold lessons over Zoom San Francisco parents have been told they will have to send children back to classrooms with a laptop and headphones, while teachers remain at home The frustrated moms and dads, who have endured more than a year of at-home learning, dubbed the bizarre move Zoom in a room How is this OK, asked mum Kira Gaber, who planned to defy the compu...

Updated 4 hours ago Frustrated parents in San Francisco have coined a new phrase for their latest classroom reality: “Zoom in a Room.” In Los Angeles, students can start going back to school in person, but more than half say they will stick with distance learning. More than a year after the coronavirus pandemic forced California’s classrooms to close, some of the largest school districts are welcoming back students this week. But the most populated state is lagging the rest of the country...