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Gabriel C. Pérez/KUTSeventy percent of AISD schools suffered some sort of damage after last week's winter storm. -
Annual state testing was canceled last year because of the pandemic. Many states want to skip it again, but the Education Department says no.
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“I’m not safe, I’m not safe, I’m not safe is the feeling that we have constantly.”
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Typically, there are high stakes around state assessment. A student who fails can be held back. Schools where a majority of students fail could face state intervention. This year, there are no consequences for students or schools based on the test.
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Public schools across Texas are in limbo as they wait for word on how much funding they’ll receive from the state this semester.
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President Biden wants schools to reopen quickly. But there are questions about whether teachers should first be vaccinated. The CDC will provide more guidance next week.
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For the first time since the pandemic began, the U.S. Education Department will begin tracking where schools have reopened and just how unequal the access to learning has been.
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Previously only two deaths had been made public — a custodial staff member who died in July and a utilities and energy management staffer who was believed to have contracted the virus off campus and died in October.
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“Ninety-five percent of people in prison are going to return to our communities. And it’s to all of our benefit that they are successful.”
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Metz Elementary is one of the Austin ISD schools that will close at the end of this school year. A class of students at UT Austin created an online archive to document the school's more than 100-year history.
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Federal researchers say, with proper safety precautions, schools don't seem to fuel outbreaks, with some exceptions such as indoor sports practices.
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After decades of false starts, the Matthew Gaines Initiative student group raised $350,000 for Gaines' statue.
