Schools and COVID

For many months, we’ve been hearing our local school superintendents and national educational leaders saying the pandemic would lead to learning losses among students.  Now it’s happening. Thousands of kids are falling through the academic cracks. About 1,700 students in Miami-Dade and nearly 800 in Broward are considered missing by the public...

While Florida’s governor is aiming for health care workers and seniors to be the first up to get a COVID-19 vaccine, there are still a lot of questions about children and schools.

A new policy requiring Broward County Public Schools students to keep their cameras on during virtual learning is getting pushback from thousands of students in the district.

The pandemic could lead to severe budget cuts in local public schools. The Broward County School District said Wednesday that could be a reality in the coming months and distance learning may be at the center of it all.  The issue isn’t unique to Broward Schools. However, it would disproportionately impact them since they have so many students...

More than 600 people in Miami-Dade County Public Schools, including both students and staff, have tested positive for coronavirus since schools reopened seven weeks ago. The actual number is higher due to lags in populating the school district’s Covid-19 dashboard. Still, the superintendent maintains the district is doing a good job containing the ...

Florida’s education commissioner on Wednesday gave some sign of flexibility at the state level with the difficult coronavirus situation, saying online classes will be allowed to continue into next year. Richard Corcoran said during a state Board of Education meeting in Tallahassee that students will be allowed to attend classes online through...

Public schools in Broward and Miami-Dade County reopened six weeks ago. About 45% of Miami-Dade students and 25% in Broward are currently learning in the classrooms, and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has said he would not allow entire school districts to shut down again.  The superintendents know that, of course, but seem to be keeping that option open...

More than 5,000 Broward County Public Schools teachers have applied for permission to continue teaching from home during the coronavirus pandemic. So far, 842 have received those special accommodations.

It’s been two weeks since Broward County Public Schools students started coming back to the classroom, and one week since Broward teachers started responding to our own NBC 6 confidential survey on what it’s like to teach during this pandemic.  “We just worry that, um, we’ll be seen as like, sacrificial lambs, basically,” said David Wood, who teach...

The number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 has risen to 90 among students and teachers in Miami-Dade County’s public schools since classrooms reopened for face-to-face learning

Zane Wampler is a fourth grader at Plantation Key School in Islamorada, which is now back to in-person classes. But he’ll have to wait a little longer for face to face instruction. “Everybody’s in school, and I’m the only one not,” said the nine-year-old. In July, Zane was diagnosed with multi-system inflammatory syndrome in children also known as ...

Angel Dominguez sensed something was amiss when the Miami Senior High School senior got to his first class Thursday. When in-person learning resumed last week, there were 18 students there. On Thursday, “we had, like, eight,” he said. “They just said a student caught COVID and they had to send all the other ones to quarantine.” A Miami ...

The bell rings, and the hallways of South Broward High School come to life, with everyone moving in the same direction: toward keeping students and teachers safe on campus.  “Oh it’s awesome, this is what we’re here for, we’re here to serve and we’re here to serve our students and it’s very exciting that they’re here,” said principal Patty......