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Those experiences and conclusions may offer hopeful guidance to societies still weighing how to get students and teachers back into primary and secondary classrooms.Still, public health officials and researchers caution that most school reopenings are in their early stages. Much remains unknown about the interaction between children, schools and the virus. And parents and teachers,…

The pressure to bring American students back to classrooms is intense, but the calculus is tricky with infections still out of control in many communities.A worker sprayed disinfectant in a classroom in Ioannina, Greece.Credit...Dimitris Rapakoussis/EPA, via ShutterstockJuly 11, 2020Updated 10:24 a.m. ETAs school districts across the United States consider whether and how to restart in-person…

Gov. Ron DeSantis | Joe Raedle/Getty Images TALLAHASSEE — Gov. Ron DeSantis, in his push to reopen classrooms this fall, said Thursday that if retailers are allowed to operate, schools should be, too. The risk of children getting sick is “extremely, extremely low,” DeSantis said, and if fast food eateries and hardware stores could operate…

The chancellor of New York City's public schools on Thursday defended the district's plans to partially reopen this fall due to the coronavirus, telling CNBC that "there are no perfect choices here." "The perfect choice would be we have a vaccine and we're back to business, but we know that's not the case," Richard Carranza said on…