CPS cancels school after CTU votes against in-person teaching
Officials at Chicago Public Schools have canceled classes today after 73% of Chicago Teachers Union members voted to suspend in-person teaching to protest COVID safety conditions in schools. Get market news worthy of your time with Axios Markets.…
Acer Chromebook Spin 513, Chromebook 314 and 315 are small, medium and large Chromebooks for work and school
The Chromebook Spin 513 has a tall 13.5-inch display. Acer This story is part of CES, where CNET covers the latest news on the most incredible tech coming soon. Acer makes a lot of Chromebooks from small but tough 11.6-inch models designed for schools…
‘We have to be agile’: School closures rise again as more teachers and students test positive for omicron
First came holiday-season flight cancellations and now come short-term school closures and virtual learning. COVID-19’s omicron variant continues to disrupt American life. Many school districts across the country, mostly clustered in the northeast, are…
New Brunswick School District Goes All Remote After Winter Break
NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ — The New Brunswick school district announced this week that all classes will be virtual for two weeks following winter break. The school district said it was doing this “as a precautionary measure.” The district made this…
Woodbridge School District Gets $3.1 Million To Buy Laptops
WOODBRIDGE, NJ — In January, the Woodbridge school district will receive $3.1 million in federal American Rescue Plan money aimed to ensure that all children in the school district have access to high-speed Internet. The Woodbridge school district can…
White House steps up vigilance as school threats spread on social media
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The White House Friday said it was “closely monitoring” threats of violence in schools, which were going viral on social media, despite a lack of evidence that there is anything substantive behind…
Several local school district leaders want to inform, not alarm, parents of a dangerous viral TikTok
PEORIA, Ill. (WMBD/WYZZ) — Leaders with several area school districts are taking extra precautions, making parents aware of a viral TikTok post that claims shootings, and bombings, will take place at schools across the United States Friday, Dec. 17. Some…
Panicked texts. Then, silence. One Oxford High School mother tells her story.
Lauren and Cole Hudson Dec. 1, 3:54 a.m., Oxford, Mich. After my children had finally fallen asleep, I found myself alone in my living room. Exhausted, yet staring trance-like into the darkness, unable to sleep myself. It had been just 13 hours since our…
How a Fairfax Co. school crafted an escape room to help students review old material
“The idea here is to just have a series of puzzles that kind of build off each other,” Matt Hoffert told WTOP. “This is more like a critical thinking, collaborating activity that happens to include some curriculum elements just to bring it all together.”…
School surveillance of students via laptops may do more harm than good | Opinion
Nir Kshetri, University of North Carolina – Greensboro Ever since the start of the pandemic, more and more public school students are using laptops, tablets or similar devices issued by their schools. The percentage of teachers who reported their schools…