Schools and COVID

In a speech and a tweet this week lauding his decision to keep schools open, Florida’s governor omitted more than 50,000 coronavirus cases confirmed in children over 14, comparing the state’s infection rate among children under 15 to other states’ rates for those under 20.

South Florida’s public schools have been open for in-person, classroom learning since October.  Since November, we’ve been reporting on the thousands of public school kids in South Florida who have fallen through the cracks either academically or by not showing up at school at all.  Many of them have switched to private or charter schools or moved ...

On the same day employees of Florida International University were asked to come back to campus, the governor of Florida took aim at the health and safety protocols the university is consulting as the basis for bringing its staff back.

Florida Education Commissioner Richard Corcoran released a statement Friday saying the state’s schools should ‘stay the course they began in summer 2020’ after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released new guidelines for resuming in-person classes.

Just as Broward County Public Schools is urging students to come back to the schoolhouse, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is recommending a return to classroom learning.

The Broward Teachers Union’s fight to secure work-from-home orders for about 1,100 teachers seems to have ended with an arbitrator’s decision.

The numbers are depressing. In recent weeks, NBC 6 has reported several times on the thousands of South Florida public school students who are failing or close to failing.  It’s hard to compare Broward to Miami-Dade County because each school district uses different metrics, but according to the superintendents, Broward has about 8,000 students who...

The Miami-Dade County Commission weighed in with a resolution urging the governor to add teachers and cops to the vaccination list

Broward County Public Schools employees ages 65 and older will be able to receive a COVID-19 vaccine this weekend, the district announced.

Miami-Dade County Public Schools employees ages 65 and older will be able to get a COVID-19 vaccine this weekend due to a partnership between the district and Jackson Health System.

Broward County Public Schools and the Broward Teachers Union have been at loggerheads for about the last six weeks. As we have shown in several stories, the two sides are fighting about what they consider safe or unsafe in the classroom environment. The school district says with record numbers of students failing and chronically truant, they need t...

The third marking period starts next week, and Broward County Public Schools has a message for parents: if at all possible, send your kids back to the schoolhouse.

The Broward Teachers Union has filed a lawsuit Thursday against Broward County Public Schools, seeking an injunction to prevent the district from forcing high-risk teachers to go back to classrooms next week.