Rochelle Walensky, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and U.S. Education Secretary Miguel Cardona were in Boston Friday for a town hall.
New Hampshire lawmakers are considering a program to expand school choice for thousands of K-12 students. It’s called an Education Savings Account, and it
For five-year-old Joanna Shelov, coming to New Hampshire has meant a year of outdoor fun.
“I get to ski a lot!” she says, standing on a melting snow bank in front of her family’s vacation home by Squam Lake.
“I do different kinds of skiing.cross country skiing, skate skiing a tiny bit on my skis, and downhill skiing.”
Normally, Joanna and her family live in Philadelphia. But this year, they’re hunkering down in their extended family’s second home, a 230-year old farmhouse by Squam Lake.
Their main reason for being here: Joanna and her sister are going to the tiny public school down the road. It’s been in-person five days a week since September, as opposed to the Philadelphia school district, which has been largely virtual.
This came completely out of the blue. We were not informed, consulted, asked, Ladd said. The message that keeps getting sent is that teachers and administrators just want to keep working remotely, and they don t want to be back in school with kids, and that is furthest from the truth.
NHPR s COVID & The Classroom is a reporting project looking at the effects of the pandemic on New Hampshire s students, parents, teachers, and schools.
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Ladd said many districts are trying to figure out how to maintain social distancing of three feet on buses, in classrooms, and during lunch.