While the CDC is recommending children mask up when they return to school, some parents are still deeply concerned about how masking will affect their child.
Dr. Eric Mackey told the crowd that about 95 percent of Alabama public schools will start in August with in-person, face to face teaching, compared to 50 percent last year. This presents new challenges because of rising coronavirus cases and especially the Delta variant.
Alabama pediatric doctors are urging the state to enforce a universal mask policy for school districts as superintendents prepare for the upcoming school year.
With the school year less than three weeks away, the Alabama Department of Education released several protocols for students entering the classroom this upcoming school year.
Although the CDC recommends everyone who isn’t vaccinated to wear a mask, school board president Dave Weis says making them optional makes the most sense, considering Alabama’s law.
Officials with The Alabama Retail Association said on average, families spend around $800 on school supplies and needs, but you may be able to save even more depending on where you are shopping.
They missed their students amid the worst of the pandemic, but as cases tick back up and only students older than 12 can get vaccinated, they’re cautiously optimistic.
Shoppers will have the opportunity to purchase certain school supplies, computers, books and clothing free of the state’s four percent sales or use tax.
State school board leaders are facing new opposition over a proposed resolution critiquing Critical Race Theory. The board started discussion about passing a resolution against the teaching framework and some civil rights leaders believe it could do more harm than good in the classroom.
Some students and staff in our area will return to the classroom in less than a month. Meanwhile, the state deals with low vaccination rates and increased concern about the Delta variant.
The Chamber of Commerce of West Alabama hosted an education summit earlier this week, that allowed the partnership between local industry and several school systems to become more defined.
A new bill expands the Alabama G.I. Dependent Scholarship Program to include comprehensive transition and postsecondary programs (CTPs) for students with intellectual disabilities.
Etowah County Sheriff Department spending time this week with high school students. Rising seniors from 10 schools in Etowah County attended this weeks Student Leadership Academy.
School districts across the state are closely monitoring enrollment numbers for the upcoming school year after a historic dip in enrollment this year. Leaders are keeping a close eye on kindergarten and first grade student enrollment because districts could see some major shifts at those grade levels.
Florida’s state Board of Education banned “critical race theory” from public school classrooms on Thursday, adopting new rules it said would shield schoolchildren from curricula that could “distort historical events.”
This past year for education has been more for the record books, but Bessemer City Schools Superintendent Dr. Autumm Jeter says they have a lot of summer reading programs to help students stay on track.
