As the United States and its schools enter the second year of the COVID-19 pandemic, policymakers, educators, and families are struggling to address everything from learning loss among K-12 students to new pressures befalling the country’s nearly 7 million adult learners. Increasingly, they are narrowing in on an old, but potentially now groundbreaking, intervention: tutoring.
There is a bipartisan push for expanding tutoring in schools, whether through a new national “tutoring corps,” a constellation of innovative initiatives such as the free global platform schoolhouse.world, or some combination of both.
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If tutoring is adopted broadly, some envision a world where school buildings will matter less in the future and everyone, young and old, can be both a teacher and a learner.
School enrollment & growth; Where are houses being built, which schools are at capacity?
With several schools at or near capacity, the results of a $30,000 land use study will aid Henderson County Public Schools in strategic planning for facility use over the next 10 years.
The study, by the North Carolina State University Institute for Transportation Research and Education s Operations Research and Education Laboratory, or OREd, provides enrollment and staffing projections.
That information will be used with the results of a facility assessment completed two years ago to make decisions about school system initiatives, facilities use and building renovations as well as the consideration of new construction and reassignment, Superintendent John Bryant told the Times-News.
14 Dallas County campuses temporarily halted in-person learning this school year due to COVID-19
Vague policies dictate when districts close down campuses for the coronavirus.
Caillet Elementary was one of 14 Dallas County campuses that had to halt in-person learning because of COVID-19 this school year. (Brandon Wade/Special Contributor)(Brandon Wade / Special Contributor)
Takeitha Thorn said it was an easy decision to send her son Zach back to Coppell High School for his junior year in early October. Zach struggles with attention deficit disorder and needs to learn in person to avoid distractions that otherwise derail his studies.
At the time, less than one-third of Coppell’s students attended school in person. Positive coronavirus cases were low but rising in Texas and numbers remained low on campuses.
The recent deaths mark the latest in a string of apparent suicides involving Chicago police officers
Published March 5, 2021 •
Updated on March 5, 2021 at 9:39 pm
The officer, who has yet to be identified, was found deceased inside a residence Friday evening in the city s Mount Greenwood neighborhood. Get the answer to your most-asked COVID vaccine questions on our mobile NBC 5 Chicago app. Download it here for iOS or Android.
The officer was a 15-year veteran who worked for the department s gang investigations unit, according to a Chicago police spokesman.
In a tweet, Chicago Police Department Supt. David Brown said, Our deepest condolences go out to the officer s family and friends, who are now grieving over this unimaginable tragedy.
Fresno-area community colleges get new interim chancellor. Here s what we know
Fresno Bee 3/3/2021 Ashleigh Panoo, The Fresno Bee
Mar. 2 Doug Houston, current chancellor of Yuba Community College District, will be the new interim chancellor for the State Center Community College District, the SCCCD board announced Tuesday evening.
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Current SCCCD Chancellor Paul Parnell will retire in July after being hired in 2016.
Houston is coming from Northern California, where he leads five campuses, including Yuba Community College and Woodland Community College.
Before that, he was the superintendent/president of Lassen College and served in various administrative positions at Butte College and Barstow College, according to his biography.