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Schools are taking precautions as grades K-8 return to the classroom full time.

Students in Boston, Massachusetts, are returning to school after a year of learning remotely.

Mayor Marty Walsh announced that Boston Public Schools will reopen for K-3 students starting Monday.

The state will be phasing in students to in-person learning starting with elementary schools in April.

The goal is to bring all elementary school students back for in-person learning five days a week.

Vaccines for teachers are recommended, but not required.

Thousands of students in the Boston Public School district returned to classrooms, Thursday, as the city ramps up the number of children receiving in-person learning. The wave of high-needs students who returned to school buildings Thursday is part of the city’s phased plan to return to in-person learning. The phase was initially slated to begin Monday, but the launch...

The University of Rhode Island is requiring all students to get tested for the coronavirus and is setting up two testing locations on campus. The mandatory testing announced Monday that applies to asymptomatic students who live on and off campus “is to assess the overall health of the entire student body at the university and establish a baseline data set…

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Boston Public Schools teachers are at odds with parents over the return to the classroom scheduled for Thursday morning amid the coronavirus pandemic. As part of the district’s phased-in reopening plan, high-needs students are scheduled to return for in-person learning on Oct. 1. But Boston is seeing an increase in its COVID-19 cases and landed Wednesday night on the...

Boston’s fast-approaching categorization of being at high risk for COVID transmission is sparking new concerns about its upcoming move to send some students back to in-person classes.

As cases of COVID-19 in the New London County region continue to climb, a local health district is warning school leaders of the uptick. The director of health for Ledge Light Health District, which covers East Lyme, Groton, Ledyard, Lyme, New London, North Stonington, Old Lyme, Stonington, and Waterford, sent a letter to the district’s superintendents outlining the uptick and...

School is back in session, but students are returning to dramatically different classrooms than the ones they left abruptly in the spring. First graders in masks, calculus over Zoom video calls, indoor recess: a world ravaged by Covid-19 has reimagined what it means to learn.  In Texas, the new academic year is causing a blitz of emotions, from excitement...

UConn has placed the 93 students living in Belden Hall, a residence hall in the Alumni Quad, under quarantine because of COVID-19 cases. UConn Tweeted that 93 students has been placed under quarantine because of a rising number of positive cases associated with the building. UConn has lifted the quarantine at The Oaks on the Square Apartments and Eddy Hall…

After months of closures, students returned to their classrooms in districts around Massachusetts Monday. But with COVID-19 concerns guiding reopening plan, learning will be different this fall. “Oh, it’s really hard,” said Madeline Bradley, a fifth grader in Duxbury, of her district’s mask policy. Bradley was one of nearly 3,000 students returning to school in the community this week....

The governor’s chief of staff, the state Department of Health and the Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference met Friday to discuss how to safely hold school sports, including football, and CIAC said it has presented some new strategies intended to mitigate the spread of COVID-19, which the Department of Health with review. Glenn Lungarini, the executive director of CIAC, said...

What’s the most important thing you can teach your kids? Empathy may be at the top of the list, according to educational psychologist, author and parenting expert Dr. Michele Borba . She stops by to chat about growing good humans with Mom2Mom’s Maria Sansone.

Chrissy Teigen has a new fan for life. Special education teacher Lily Parshenov’s Amazon wish list was among those purchased by Teigen as the star wanted to give a helping hand to teachers across the country.

The Sharon School Committee and the Sharon Teachers Association have reached a settlement to move forward with a hybrid learning model after teachers refused to enter school buildings amid the coronavirus crisis.

As Mass. residents anticipate the continuation of the state’s reopening, Gov. Charlie Baker talks about progress in the Commonwealth.