school reopenings

Joe Biden is pledging to bring the coronavirus pandemic under enough control to open most of the nation’s schools during his first 100 days as president.

School systems around the U.S. are involved in a stop-and-start process of in-person learning

School leaders in the Bay Area are working on developing timelines for students to safely return to the classroom, even as COVID-19 cases are on the rise across the region and the nation.

More than a dozen schools in Marin County reopened Tuesday with a waiver allowing them to return to in-person teaching for the first time since March. Joe Rosato Jr. reports.

More than a dozen schools in Marin County reopened Tuesday with a waiver allowing them to return to in-person teaching for the first time since March.

A new study out of Seoul National University suggests that children can shed the coronavirus for up to three weeks, even if they are asymptomatic.

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Texas leaders who grappled with coronavirus testing shortages for much of the pandemic are now facing the opposite problem: not enough takers

Reopening schools will be easy

The first wave of college students returning to their dorms aren’t finding the typical mobs of students and parents. What they found Friday were strict safety protocols and some heightened anxiety amid a global pandemic where virus infections are growing in dozens of states. North Carolina State University staggered the return of its students over 10 days and welcomed the…

NBC Bay Area has reached out to every Bay Area school district to get their plans for reopening during the pandemic.

Foo Fighters musician and former Fairfax County Public Schools student Dave Grohl weighed in Wednesday on how school should be conducted as the coronavirus pandemic continues.  In a nine-minute reading of an essay he wrote for “The Atlantic,” Grohl endorsed remote learning and said teachers who devote their lives to their students for low pay should get “a little...

School districts around the U.S. are grappling with whether to bring students back to classrooms in the fall, and how to keep them and their teachers safe from the coronavirus if they do

As the schooling dilemma continues to daunt millions of parents, some with the means to front the steep costs are hiring private educators and tutors.

Gov. Gavin Newsom’s new order for California schools announced Friday seemed to reassure a lot of leaders in San Jose Unified School District. Robert Handa reports.

State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Thurmond said to proceed with “an abundance of caution” in reopening schools amid the pandemic.

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine released a report on Wednesday with recommendations on how districts should prepare to reopen schools.

White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany denied that the White House pressured the CDC into relaxing their guidelines after President Donald Trump tweeted Wednesday that he disagrees with the CDC’s “very tough & expensive guidelines for opening schools.”

Northeastern University announced Wednesday afternoon that it would join Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in filing a federal lawsuit against the Department of Homeland Security and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement over new rules barring international students from living in the country while taking online courses. The suit, filed in U.S. District Court in Boston, asks...

At a roundtable with President Trump on Tuesday, Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar advocated to reopen schools by citing social distancing, good hygiene and face masks as necessary and sufficient precautions to keep students and teachers healthy.