- “The covid-19 tragedy teaches this: Government is more apt to achieve adequacy when it does not try to achieve [regulatory] purity.” —Washington Post
- The CDC concludes that school transmission of coronavirus is scant, but it recommends caution with indoor athletics. —Washington Post
- “[C]ops and firefighters, nurses and National Guard troops, mail carriers and DMV workers, spies and bureaucrats—have been back on the job for months or never left…. Our teachers are needed, too.” —Matt Bai
- An Education Next national survey indicates that public support for teachers has remained steady during the pandemic. But locally, teachers feel demoralized by criticisms against unions resisting pressure to reopen. —Education Week
- “Washington and Lincoln are out. S.F. school board tosses 44 school names in controversial move.” 5—San Francisco Chronicle
- Although children are less likely to contract Covid-19, vaccination will protect the adults around them and keep them safe from the virus when they reach adulthood. —The Atlantic
- Pandemic learning losses threaten our future economy in the years when those who have fallen behind enter the workforce. Summer school may be the best of all the undesirable remedies. —NY Daily News
- “Are Teachers Unions Really Taking Over Biden’s Department of Education?” —The 74
- Charter school teachers in D.C. are going door to door to track students who are chronically absent and falling behind. And sadly, most reading losses are concentrated in the two poorest wards. —New York Times
- Despite Biden’s promises to reopen, teacher union resistance has parents frustrated and uncertain about whether their kids will return to the classroom this year, especially in urban districts. —USA Today
- Clark County schools in Las Vegas reported 18 student suicides in the last nine months—twice as many as the previous year. Superintendent Jesus Jara is pushing for reopening for the sake of students’ wellbeing. —New York Times
- Tennessee’s state assembly enacted several education bills designed to tackle third-grade literacy declines with a re-emphasis on phonics and an exam-based retention policy, among other reforms. —Associated Press
- The Los Angeles Unified School District rolls out a tutoring program that it intends to expand over the next five year. —EdSource
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