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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…

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...

As we inch closer to August, the debate on whether to reopen schools is heating up. Now, local members of Congress are speaking out, some insisting school should stay closed.

As we inch closer to August, the debate on whether to re-open schools is heating up. Now, local members of Congress are speaking out, some insisting school should stay closed. NBC 6’s Steve Litz reports.

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.

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

As the debate rages nationwide about how to reopen schools in the fall, the focus is usually on the children. The American Academy of Pediatrics, for example, recently issued an opinion urging school districts to find ways to bring students back to campus full-time, five days a week, citing a plethora of reasons ranging from learning gaps created by ineffective…

As the debate rages nationwide about how to reopen schools in the fall, the focus is usually on the children. NBC 6’s Ari Odzer reports.

Gov. Ron DeSantis seemed to equate reopening schools with going to Walmart and Home Depot, saying educating kids is just as essential as those businesses. NBC 6’s Alyssa Hyman reports.

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...

Administrators at South Florida’s colleges and universities are trying to plan for the fall semester even as the COVID-19 pandemic grips the area. NBC 6’s Ari Odzer reports.

For one Broward County mom, the going back to school debate is a little more complicated.

For one Broward County mom, the going back to school debate is a little more complicated. Ryann Goldberg is a kindergarten teacher, but she’s also a mom to a 4-year-old boy with special needs.

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.

At a roundtable meetings about reopening schools, President Donald Trump praised the U.S. response to the coronavirus in limiting the number of Americans who have died, saying, “We saved of thousands of lives, hundreds of thousands of lives… we’re at [130,000 deaths] and we could be at way over a million right now and I think it could have been...