Education

Almost 500,000 public school jobs have been lost during the pandemic, according to Labor Department Statistics, but many California teachers say they are having unique challenges trying to get their unemployment benefits.

Dozens of San Diego County elementary schools have applied for waivers that would allow them to reopen campuses for in-person instruction – even if the county remains on the state’s COVID-19 watch list.

LX News host Ashley Holt talked to a college student from Illinois, a high school student from Georgia and an eighth grader from Indiana about returning to school in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic.

A federal judge is allowing the Education Department to move forward with new rules governing how schools and universities respond to sexual assault complaints.

As parents nationwide prepare to help their children with more distance learning, a small but quickly growing number are deciding to take matters entirely into their own hands and begin homeschooling

The Justice Department is highlighting a number of actions school officials should take to increase safety, including improving mental health resources, monitoring social media accounts and improving physical security measures

Georgia State Sen. Ben Watson joined LX News to discuss the surge in coronavirus cases in his state. The Republican lawmaker said he thinks in-person learning for children is crucial after a viral photo of a school’s crowded hallways sparked criticism about reopenings.

Many U.S. schools have poor air circulation, which will exacerbate the coronavirus threat when some of them reopen this month

There is no doubt that the coronavirus pandemic will make the 2020-2021 school year look and feel completely different. One innovative way people are connecting is by quarantine pods—small communities of three to four families with the same COVID concerns.

A study by The Hechinger Report found that many colleges and universities were already facing downturns in enrollment, retention, tuition revenue and state appropriations before the coronavirus pandemic disrupted the school year. Senior editor Sarah Butrymowicz joined LX news to discuss how this added financial stress could change higher education post-pandemic.

One innovation to emerge from the coronavirus pandemic is the concept of “pods” — small groups of families who are essentially quarantining together by following the same social distancing rules. Now some parents are applying that concept to education and forming school pods to teach their kids in small groups. However, the price of entry is steep. NBCLX’s Cody Broadway...

In Marin County, a private school and a nature education nonprofit have each begun offering school year “pods” to get kids learning outdoors in small groups — a setting health experts maintain is safer than returning to indoor classrooms.

As the coronavirus pandemic has clouded hopes of reopening schools nationwide, parents who want more than remote instruction have been scrambling to hire tutors and private teachers for small groups of children

California health officials released guidelines Monday for elementary schools to seek waivers that would allow them to offer classroom instruction, but recommended that local health officials not even consider that option in counties with the highest rates of coronavirus infection. The state Department of Public Health released the guidelines for public, private and charter schools seeking permission from local health…

Arizona mother-of-three Heather Mace is an education mentor who helps beginning teachers with lesson plans and classroom management. Mace joined LX News to explain why she feels uncomfortable returning to school this fall as Covid-19 cases surge in her state.

The first wave of students headed back to school last week amid the continuing COVID-19 pandemic, and Kayla Jackson’s 10-year-old son Camden Taylor was among them. “This is definitely something that I had never foreseen happening, choosing do you send your child to school or you don’t? In this time, right now, I don’t have a choice. It is very unfortunate...

A 16-year-old rising high school senior, Alexis Loveraz, has turned to TikTok to provide one-minute math lessons for students who need help with the subject.

Dr. Anthony Fauci, the Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), discusses the tough decisions parents must make about sending their kids back to school amid the coronavirus pandemic.

Could “safe centers” for online learning be an alternative to in-person education this fall? Shardha Jogee, an astronomy professor at the University of Texas at Austin, proposes converting schools and large open spaces into classrooms for students who are unable to learn from home or need meals provided by the school district.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released new guidelines Thursday for reopening schools that emphasize getting students back in the classroom by laying out the social, emotional and mental risks of keeping students at home.