This is an eight part series with a broad spectrum of opinions for how to open and operate schools in the COVID-19 crisis, it explores specific strategies that some districts will adopt and explains pros, the cons, and the costs. The eight part series includes: 1. The Socially Distanced School Day 2. Scheduling the COVID-19 School Day 3. Getting Kids to School: Tackling the COVID-19 transportation 4. COVID-19 & Remote Learning: How to Make It Work 5. Teaching and Learning in the Pandemic 6. Overcoming COVID-19 Learning Loss 7, Teaching Social -Emotional Skills Amid COVID-19 8. Closing COVID-19 Equity Gaps in Schools.
Will, Madeline , Lieberman, Mark. 2020. How We Go Back to School. Education Week.
https://www.edweek.org/leadership/how-we-go-back-to-school
There is a compelling need to reform California’s K-12 system and for additional investment in disadvantaged and minority students that lag far behind, to address these challenges and to reduce systemic inequities. This brief summarizes an economic analysis of three specific – and related – issues facing California’s public school system: students’ failure to complete high school, chronic absenteeism, and disciplinary infractions.
Belfied, C. Rodgriguez, V., Bowden, A.B., Oas, J. (2023). The Economic Benefits of Equity Across California Schools. California MTSS Research Consortium, UCLA Center for the Transformation of Schools. Accessed September 8, 2023. https://transformschools.ucla.edu/research/the-economic-benefits-of-equity-across-california-schools/