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USA TODAY: What schools will look like when they reopen: Scheduled days home, more online learning, lots of hand-washing
Imagine, for a moment, American children returning to school this fall. The school week looks vastly different, with most students attending school two or three days a week and doing the rest of their learning at home. At school, desks are spaced apart to discourage...
HuffPost: School Lunch Programs Are Rapidly Going Broke
In communities around the country, schools may be the only institutions making sure that hungry children and their families are fed. They’ve opened grab-and-go lunch stations and started delivering meals to neighborhoods by bus. But some programs are also going broke,...
New York Times: Schools Transform Into ‘Relief’ Kitchens, but Federal Aid Fails to Keep Up
BALTIMORE — On the first day of the coronavirus school closure at Sinclair Lane Elementary School, Janet Bailey, the cafeteria manager, showed up to the school’s kitchen like any other day, ready to do her job. She began fixing the favorites of the 250 or so children...
New York Times: Covid-19 and the Big Government Problem
Katie Wilson, a deputy under secretary at the Department of Agriculture in the Obama administration, is the executive director of the Urban School Food Alliance, a nonprofit that works with the country’s largest school districts to improve the quality of student...