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The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted the lives of the nation’s estimated 62.7 million parents with children under age 18 as access to paid, unpaid or subsidized child care and school supervision ended for many. The recent end of pandemic relief funds may continue the disruptions for some households, potentially affecting availability of child care for years to come. Interestingly,The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted the lives of the nation’s estimated 62.7 million parents with children under age 18 as access to paid, unpaid or subsidized child care and school supervision ended for many. The recent end of pandemic relief funds may continue the disruptions for some households, potentially affecting availability of child care for years to come. Interestingly, » The FINANCIAL America ....
AP: Homeschooling Surges Across U.S. 26 Jul 2021 More parents are homeschooling their children even as schools have been planning to reopen with in-person instruction since the pandemic, the Associated Press (AP) reported Monday. According to the report, despite the varied reasons parents give for choosing to regularly homeschool their children, the “common denominator” is that school closures during the pandemic presented them with the opportunity to try it out, and they discovered it was beneficial to their children. “That’s one of the silver linings of the pandemic I don’t think we would have chosen to homeschool otherwise,” said Danielle King of Randolph, Vermont, whose 7-year-old daughter Zoë has a curriculum that has included literature, anatomy, and archaeology – supplemented by outdoor fossil searches. ....
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(The Center Square) – The percentage of Michigan parents seeking educational options by home schooling their school-age children during the pandemic more than doubled. ....
(The Center Square) – The percentage of Minnesota parents seeking educational options by home schooling their school-age children picked up significantly during the pandemic. ....