COVID-19 Policy Update #226
COVID-19 Policy Update
WEDNESDAY 3/24
I'm still a bit under the weather and it has also been an oddly slow COVID news cycle this week. All of that translates into a shorter update this evening!
TOP THREE
IES: Monthly School Survey Dashboard
About one-third of schools offer two hours or less of live instruction per day for those learning either full or part-time at home. Some offer none.
About half of all White students were attending school in person full-time in January, the survey found. But that was true for just 28 percent of Black students and 33 percent of Hispanic student
COVID Testing: Results of a new study that explored a school district's use of COVID testing over 18 weeks.
"In this school district with layered mitigation measures, in-school transmission was rare."
"The program identified a cluster with in-school staff-to-staff transmission and spurred enhancement of safety strategies. A weekly COVID-19 screening program can provide critical data to inform mitigation efforts, and provides school-specific, current data to inform decisions about in-person learning models."
"Screening provided reassurance and identified asymptomatic cases"
ED:
Secretary Cardona expects 100% of schools to be reopened by fall.
Secretary Cardona to Launch the Summer Learning & Enrichment Collaborative with CCSSO and NGA
Secretary Cardona to Launch School Reopening Tour
STATE
California: Supt. Thurmond deploys 3 million COVID tests to speed up safe school reopening
Iowa: OpEd: "We shouldn’t completely ditch online learning"
Maryland: Failure rates surged in Maryland schools during the second quarter, with new data showing percentages doubling or tripling in key classes in most of the state’s 24 school districts.
ECONOMIC RECOVERY
Bankruptcies Are Way Down: Here’s why
How 10 Prominent Economists Think About Overheating: Good collection of a wide perspective of thought.
RESOURCES
Surveying the Perspectives of Black K-12 Parents: New poll from EdChoice and Morning Consult. Blog overview of key findings. And the new brief here.
Skiing: Crazy line at Mammoth Mountain