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How schools that kept Covid cases low are battling new variants

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Scott County School District 1 in Austin, Indiana reopened for the fall semester with optional face masks, less distancing in classrooms and no remote option. This story also appeared in COVID-19 Data Dispatch. District leaders quickly realized they had relaxed the Covid safety rules too soon. Not this year.

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In the shadows: The orphans Covid left behind

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As [the coffin] was going down, in my mind I’m like, This is real now,” he says. “I I gotta do what it takes. His three sisters don’t do the whole church thing as religiously as he does. That number is now rising at a faster rate , Nelson says, while local and federal governments remain largely mum on the issue.

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Tears, sleepless nights and small victories: How first-year teachers are weathering the crisis

The Hechinger Report

On a hot Friday afternoon in late August, Amia Bridgeford stood outside of the chain-link fence bordering Western Middle School of the Arts, an imposing brick building with arched windows in western Louisville. This story also appeared in NBC News. It was four days before the beginning of a new school year.

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“We’re really underwater here:” An oral history of year three of pandemic schooling, Part II

The Hechinger Report

Our reporters are spending the year listening to people from across the country who are involved in their local public schools in one way or another. This winter, we talked to a parent in Cleveland, a superintendent in Wyoming and a basketball coach in New Mexico among more than a dozen others. I was so upset. CHOOSE A LOCATION.

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‘I can’t do this anymore’: How four middle schoolers are struggling though the pandemic

The Hechinger Report

It felt, to Anuar, like another sign that remote learning wasn’t going to go well for him. It felt, to Anuar, like another sign that remote learning wasn’t going to go well for him. He missed the boxes teachers had used to collect students’ cell phones back at school, to discourage their use. It was around 11 a.m.