Building upgrades, SEL: 100 large & urban districts plan their pandemic recovery

New review of ESSER spending plans shows districts favor facilities improvements, student & teacher supports; investments in staff, parents less clear.
Trends in education innovation from 161 school leaders

What it looks like to embrace the strengths, passions and needs of each student, particularly those who have been historically underserved.
School mask, vaccine mandates are mostly gone. But what if the virus comes back?

As 100 large districts gear up for a “normal” year, it’s not clear what will happen should another deadly COVID variant arise.
Remote learning options are shutting down as school reopens in fall 2022

Large districts more likely to keep pre-pandemic virtual programs than those created when Covid-19 closed schools and forced classes online
Collaboration between CRPE, ASU informs new report on pandemic’s academic impacts

Carrie Sampson shares how she and other experts made sense of what we know and what we still need to find out about how pandemic-related disruptions affected student learning.
Enrollment drops, staff shortages cause budget whiplash for top school districts

The contrasting trends underscore the pandemic’s wildly variable impact on districts — and the key impact of enrollment on revenue
‘Do this!’ How Oakland parents are fighting for better schools — and a more responsive system

Lakisha Young writes about starting The Oakland REACH.
Oh, the places you’ll go—or not: Graduating seniors may be unprepared for the future

High schools must accelerate academic support and opportunities for several more waves of pandemic-era graduates.
Voice and choice: New England students highlight which pandemic-era changes should stay—and which should go

Research on the pandemic’s negative impact on student learning, peer-to-peer relationships, and teenagers’ mental health makes it easy to assume high schoolers are eager to “return to normal.” Yet recent conversations with high school students throughout New England reveal very different hopes for this period of recovery. Our researchers and those from Columbia University’s Center for […]
Many districts are doing less this summer to make up for lost learning

Even after an additional year to plan and more federal recovery dollars available, districts’ 2022 summer programs are mostly the same as last year.