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Schools and educators across the U.S. have landed in the middle of an increasingly politicized debate over how best to reopen schools this fall

Seth Meyers takes a closer look at President Donald Trump trying to force students and teachers back to school without a plan to keep them safe.

Amid spiking coronavirus cases, Los Angeles Unified School District campuses will remain closed when classes resume next month, Superintendent Austin Beutner said Monday, defying President Donald Trump’s demand that students return to in-person instruction. Beutner said the “health and safety of all in the school community is not something we can compromise.” The decision comes days after the union...

Despite skyrocketing COVID-19 cases in several states, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos is pushing the Trump plan to fully reopen schools, in person, five days a week. Some districts says they’re not ready and will start at least partially online.

Some Bay Area school districts are planning to keep students at home in the fall with 100% distance learning programs, and it’s not going over well with parents.

The West Contra Costa Unified School District plans to keep thousands of students at home when the school year starts on Aug. 17, NBC Bay Area has learned. Jackie Ward reports.

Parents from across the country are expressing conflicting emotions about school reopening plans for the fall. Some parents want to keep their children out of school until there is a vaccine while others believe that children will suffer mentally and emotionally without proper in-person instruction.

Surging coronavirus cases in California prompted a warning on Wednesday from the nation’s most populous county of a possible delay to classroom instruction in public schools next month — a setback Gov. Gavin Newsom said he hopes to avoid by convincing more people to wear face coverings and stay away from gatherings. Los Angeles County public health officials say, on…

What will happen in August? With a month to go until the start of the school year, planning is kicking into high gear on how to get back into the classroom. Ian Cull reports.

Interim guidance for reopening San Francisco schools calls for maximizing outdoor space, physical distancing and face coverings, but it’s still unclear what school will actually look like in the fall. Christie Smith reports.

Members of the White House Coronavirus Task Force say why schools should reopen this fall.

President Trump demanded schools reopen in the fall but is it ministration offered no plan as to how to do so. Meanwhile the president says the CDC’s guidance for schools safely is too complicated.

Some Bay Area school districts are planning to keep students at home in the fall with 100% distance learning programs or hybrid models, and it’s not going over well with parents. Bob Redell reports.

President Donald Trump is launching an all-out effort to press state and local officials to reopen schools this fall

Some Bay Area school districts are planning to keep students at home in the fall with 100% distance learning programs, and it’s not going over well with parents. Roz Plater reports.

School districts across America must make wrenching decisions over how to resume classes in settings radically altered by the coronavirus pandemic.

With as little as a month before school starts in some areas and COVID-19 diagnoses spiking in some of those same places, parents are wondering whether they have to choose between their jobs and their kids. After word reached parents in New York City that the department of education was considering a hybrid plan for reopening schools that would allow students...

U.S. Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin says he believes most schools will be able to open in the fall, helping parents get back to work.

The Supreme Court has ruled that states can’t cut religious schools out of programs that send public money to private education

The American Academy of Pediatrics made headlines for its recommendation that schools reopen to children this fall. AAP President Dr. Sally Goza explains how keeping kids out of school leads to increased social isolation and abuse, and how it also increases racial and economic disparities.