Commentary The Ontario government recently announced that all school boards will be required to provide a remote learning option for students during the entire 2021/22 school year. In making this announcement, education minister Stephen Lecce claimed that he was providing this choice in response to parental demand. Whether or not some parents want remote learning,…
Santa Ana Classrooms Will Remain Closed Until Next School Year
Santa Ana public school students won’t be returning to class during the current curricular year. The Santa Ana Unified School District’s (SAUSD) board voted March 23 to keep schools closed for in-person instruction for the remainder of the school year. Board members opted not to vote on creating a hybrid class schedule, following a presentation that…
Community Rallies to Reopen Yorba Linda Schools
About 70 parents, teachers, and students rallied outside the Placentia-Yorba Linda Unified School District (PYLUSD) office March 9 to show their support for schools reopening. Supervisor Don Wagner, a keynote speaker at the event, was among those lobbying for a full-time return to classrooms. “It is perfectly safe, we believe, based on the science, to let the kids get back…
LA City Councilman Plans Motion To Explore Legal Options To Reopen Schools
LOS ANGELES—Los Angeles City Councilman Joe Buscaino plans to introduce a motion next week asking the city attorney to explore legal options for forcing the L.A. Unified School District (LAUSD) to reopen its campuses for in- person learning, despite the continuing COVID-19 pandemic. “I stand with the 1,500 pediatricians in Southern California as well as…
Laguna Beach High Schools Will Remain Closed Until Virus Metrics Improve
Some Laguna Beach high schools will remain closed until Orange County enters a less restrictive tier of the pandemic, and the local school board says it’s taking extra steps to help students struggling with remote learning. “Under the substantially stressful conditions of the pandemic, school-based mental health staff has used multiple ways to support students,…
Ontario To Reopen Schools in Regions Hardest Hit by COVID-19
Ontario education minister Stephen Lecce announced Wednesday that the province will reopen schools in the five hot spot regions where the COVID-19 virus hit the hardest recently. Students attending schools in Toronto, Peel, and York regions will be able to return to in-classroom learning on Feb. 16. All remaining schools in Southern Ontario will start…
Extended School Closures Are Harmful to Students
Commentary It’s been just over a year since the first COVID-19 case was identified in Canada. Since that time, the federal and provincial governments have struggled to contain this virus through a series of rotating lockdowns. Last spring, virtually every school in the country was closed, and most closures lasted for the remainder of the…
Ontario’s Expands Eligibility for Emergency Child Care Program in Remote Learning Regions
Ontario says it is expanding the list of eligible workers under its emergency child care program in regions where students continue to engage in remote learning mandated by the government in their effort to curb the spread of COVID-19. The new list will allow additional workers and their families to have access to free child…
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