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With his stint as Boston mayor potentially coming to a close in the coming weeks, Marty Walsh warned of “concerning” coronavirus numbers as the city works to vaccinate people and bring students back to the classroom. Students in Boston Public Schools will be able to chose whether or not to return to in-person learning in waves between February and...

In a push to get students back into the classroom, the Framingham Public School District is hiring additional staff to accomodate coronavirus needs. The city is looking to hire as many as 40 new people to fill positions in classrooms where teachers can’t return to school because of health concerns. Teachers would continue their instruction from home, but new staffers…

In a push to get students back into the classroom, the Framingham Public School District is hiring additional staff to accomodate coronavirus needs.

Gov. Charlie Baker announced Friday that the state will make weekly COVID-19 pool testing available to Massachusetts schools within the next month to help bring more students back into the classroom. The governor and his administration’s education officials have regularly been promoting in-person learning, and the governor said Friday that “too many kids remain learning remotely or in complicated...

While vaccinations are reason to hope, epidemiologists and public health experts say that the pandemic will continue to be a major factor in 2021. TODAY Health spoke to seven experts to get their thoughts on what the next year will look like.

In late September New York City reopened public schools with a warning of closure if the city’s COVID-19 positivity rate hit 3%. The New York Times chronicled the journey of Community School 55 in the Bronx and its fight to educate its students during a pandemic.

After months of remote learning in many parts of the country, new research is revealing how Black, Hispanic, and low-income students are disproportionately falling behind. Washington Post reporter Laura Meckler breaks down some of the reasons why remote learning is failing so many of our kids and the effects of long-standing equity gaps.

With a nationwide vaccine rollout poised to begin, a debate is underway about who should be given priority access. Miami-Dade County Public Schools Superintendent Alberto Carvalho says teachers are essential workers who play a vital role in our communities and should be near the front of the line.

Maine has added another county to its list of those that are urged to take extra precautions to avoid spread of the coronavirus. The state uses a color-coded system to classify the level of risk at schools in its 16 counties. The Maine Department of Education has said it’s adding Oxford County’s school districts to the list of counties...

President-elect Joe Biden on Tuesday outlined his plan to tackle the coronavirus pandemic in his first 100 days. He said he would require masks where he could under the law, secure 100 million vaccine shots and open a majority of schools.

The first report cards of the new school year are arriving with a lot more Fs than usual, and it’s not just parents who are getting distressed

After previewing the return of in-person learning ahead of Thanksgiving, Mayor Bill de Blasio returned from the holiday on Sunday to announce the scheduled return of public schools starting with elementary and special education students. The first school buildings will reopen Dec. 7, de Blasio said Sunday. City officials plan to reopen public school buildings in a phased approach, starting…

Massachusetts education officials reported more than 480 new coronavirus cases this week in schools across the state. The Department of Elementary and Secondary Education released the report on Wednesday, one day early due to the Thanksgiving holiday. The weekly COVID-19 report shows a total of 276 students and 206 staffers tested positive for the virus from Nov. 19 through Nov….

The switch to remote learning in rural New Mexico has left some students profoundly isolated — cut off from others and the grid by sheer distance

Black and Latino children from low-income families are much more likely to be learning entirely remotely than white and Asian children from families in a similar economic situation, according to a new survey of Massachusetts parents. Parents across demographics gave hybrid learning the worst marks of the available options during the coronavirus pandemic.

Massachusetts parents who took a new survey on their experience with schools during the coronavirus pandemic reacted to its findings.

Massachusetts parents Rebecca Cassidy, Natasha Richards and Antonia Foster discuss hybrid learning, which a new poll finds is the most unpopular way students can go to school in the state amid the coronavirus pandemic.

With four Boston Public Schools set to resume in-person learning for high-needs students on Monday, Nov. 16, the school district, the teachers union and Mayor Marty Walsh mutually agreed Sunday on additional provisions to keep teachers and students safe. The Boston Teachers Union announced Sunday night that many important safeguards and protections that they had long advocated for had been…

Gov. Charlie Baker on Thursday said Massachusetts was better poised to handle surging coronavirus cases than it was in the spring, but urged residents to stay vigilant as the pandemic continues to rage across the commonwealth. “We’re nowhere near the uncharted territory we were at in the spring. Nowhere near it,” Baker said. “We’re definitely dealing with a surge...

Coronavirus cases are on the rise in Massachusetts schools, with 307 more cases reported this week. The Department of Elementary and Secondary released the numbers Thursday in its weekly COVID-19 report. A total of 176 students learning in-person or in a hybrid plan tested positive from Nov. 5 to 11, as did 131 school district staffers. This week is the…