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Contact Tracing? Sports? Experts Explain School Reopening Research and Recommendations

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It’s been a busy few months for schools reopening—and perhaps an even busier time for the agencies releasing guidance on how to do those reopenings safely. Department of Education launched the first volume of its COVID-19 handbook , which focuses on the parameters of school reopenings but also on equity concerns for reaching all learners.

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What would actually happen if we gave all parents the chance to pick their children’s schools?

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Children play outside during recess at Hokitika Primary School. Last year, the school lost 10 students to a nearby, more affluent school. This story is the first of a three-part series that examines how other countries approach the idea of school choice. New Zealand is a school choice utopia.

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The (mostly) Republican Idaho moms fighting to reclaim their school district from hard-right conservatives  

The Hechinger Report

This story also appeared in Vanity Fair There were no formal exit polls conducted in West Bonner County, where the school district covers 781 square miles over timbered hills and crystalline lakes in the north Idaho panhandle. But even as some celebrated “flipping” their school boards back, far-right groups like Moms for Liberty remain.