An increasing number of New Jersey’s largest school districts are planning to begin the upcoming academic year remotely following Gov. Phil Murphy’s announcement last week that all-virtual learning would be acceptable under certain conditions.Newark — the state’s largest school district — said Monday that students would learn remotely for at least the first marking period.…
At least 260 students and eight teachers from a suburban school district in Atlanta, Georgia, were quarantined after multiple students and teachers tested positive for Covid-19 during the first week …
As more schools abandon plans for in-person classes, one that opened in Indiana this week had to quarantine students within hours.A student at Greenfield Central Junior High School in Indiana tested positive for the coronavirus on Thursday, the first day of school.Credit...AJ Mast for The New York TimesAug. 1, 2020Updated 11:34 a.m. ETOne of the…
The Democratic National Committee on Monday intensified its criticism of President Trump’s push to reopen schools, saying the administration is gambling with lives in a naked attempt to score political points ahead of the fall election. In a new television attack ad, the DNC highlighted how Mr. Trump initially downplayed the virus and questioned whether…
U.S.|Grand Juror in Breonna Taylor Case Says Deliberations Were MisrepresentedThe Kentucky attorney general’s office said it would release the panel’s recordings after a grand juror contended in a court filing that its discussions were inaccurately characterized.Breonna Taylor's family and the lawyer Ben Crump, right, said the charges a Kentucky grand jury agreed upon in the…
(John Finney Photography/Moment/Getty Images) An abnormally bad season of weather may have had a significant impact on the death toll from both World War I and the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, according to new research, with many more lives being lost due to torrential rain and plummeting temperatures. Through a detailed analysis of an ice…