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As the world struggles with reopening, schools are at the forefront of the conversation in the midst of an ongoing pandemic. Not only will schools need to reopen in a way that protects the safety and health of students, teachers, and staff, but schools will need to find new ways to help students make up for the losses in learning, health, and support systems that occurred as a result school closures. Our resources can help.

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    National and Index School District Mask & COVID-19 Vaccine Policy Tracker

    The National and Index School District Mask & COVID-19 Vaccine Policy Tracker examines state and district level policies about masking in schools, COVID-19 vaccines for students and teachers, and COVID-19 services offered in the school setting. This tracker includes data from all 50 states, District of Columbia, Bureau of Indian Education, and major US territories, as well as 56 school districts, selected from 20 states, representing the lowest and highest poverty, and largest school district in each state.

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    COVID-19 Global Education Recovery Tracker

    Monitoring the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on response and recovery for students across the globe, this information is intended to be of use for education and public health policy stakeholders and researchers from around the world. This tracker is the result of a partnership between the Johns Hopkins University eSchool+ Initiative, the World Bank, and UNICEF.

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    Teacher & School Staff COVID-19 Vaccination Dashboard

    The eSchool+ Teacher and School Staff COVID-19 Vaccine Dashboard tracks the availability of vaccinations for teachers and school staff across the United States, District of Columbia, Bureau of Indian Education, and major US territories. The purpose of this dashboard is to capture real-time information about state vaccination plans for teachers and school staff. This information is intended to be of use for education and public health policy stakeholders and researchers, teachers, and school staff from across the country.

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    Tracking State and National School Reopening Plans

    This interactive state tracker curates school reopening plans by state, as well as guidance documents by non-governmental organizations, along six operational criteria: 1) Core Academics; 2) SARS CoV-2 Protection; 3) Before/After School Programs, including Athletics, Childcare, and Extracurriculars; 4) Building Access & Student Transportation; 5) School Health Services; and 6) Food and Nutrition, and six ethics and equity criteria 1) Parent Choice; 2) Teacher and Other School Personnel Choice; 3) Children with Special Needs/IEP/ESL/Gifted & Twice Exceptional; 4) Children of Poverty, Children of Color, Systematic Disadvantage (Low-Income Parents & Parents who are Essential Workers); 4) Privacy; and 6) Engagement and Transparency.

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    The Ethics of K-12 School Reopening: Identifying and Addressing the Values at Stake

    Guidance on the challenges schools will face as they reopen their doors needs to take account of the ethical issues at stake. We frame school reopening around four broad moral values—well-being, liberty, justice, and legitimacy—and how policies under consideration can promote or undermine these moral values.

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    COVID-19 School Reopening Checklist

    The COVID-19 School Reopening Response Checklist is a tool to assist school and district leaders and other key stakeholders in the decision-making process as they navigate school reopening. It emphasizes areas in need of attention from an equity and ethics perspective. The decision-makers can use the Checklist to systematically assess their needs and resources for reopening in 6 areas: continuity of learning, infection control and facilities, food security, health, housing and safety, and supervision.

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    Examples of Equity-Oriented Reopening Policies

    A continuously updated list of equity-based school reopening policies under consideration or being implemented by school systems around the country.

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    School News Roundup

    Our biweekly e-newsletter provides the latest information about schools and the COVID-19 pandemic. Browse the archive and sign up to receive the newsletter by email.

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  • Absenteeism is the Wrong Student Engagement Metric to Use Right Now

    Absenteeism is the Wrong Student Engagement Metric to Use Right Now

    An opinion piece in Education Week by Annette Anderson, Ruth Faden, and Sara Johnson argues that after the pandemic, there needs to be a more useful school accountability measure.

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Additional Resources

The ethics of reopening our schools

Read our op-ed in the Baltimore Sun

June 1, 2020

School Closure Response Checklist

A guide for school and district leaders navigating the care of students during COVID-19 school closures.

April 30, 2020

School Closure Plan Tracker

This tracker summarizes how different districts are responding to school closures, focusing on 1) continuity of learning; 2) health; 3) food security; 4) supervision; and 5) housing/safety.

April 30, 2020

School News Roundup

Our biweekly e-newsletter provides the latest information about schools and the COVID-19 pandemic. Browse the archive and sign up to receive the newsletter by email.

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