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The combination of temperatures in the 90s, school buildings without air conditioning and COVID-19 safety protocols has some Massachusetts districts starting the week with plans to send students home early. Heat-related half-days are permissible as long as schools still meet their required amount of student learning time for the year, but shifting to a remote day because of the extreme…

Many Massachusetts school districts are sending students home Monday and Tuesday as oppressive heat continues over the next couple of days.

Virtual schools were available before the coronavirus pandemic, but once students and teachers were barred from classrooms, it became the norm. Now, more than a dozen public school districts in Massachusetts are looking into creating schools that are exclusively online. Boston Public Schools has been exploring the possibility of launching a fully virtual school. Officials sent a survey to parents asking what...

More than a dozen districts in Massachusetts are exploring the possibility of launching fully virtual schools,

With all due respect to all the dads out there… it’s been a really, really (one more time so they can hear me in the back row) … really hellish year to be a mom. As the pandemic forced schools to shutter across the country and introduced us all to the unwelcome concept of remote homeschooling, mothers have largely borne...

About one-third of parents in Boston, Massachusetts have decided to keep their children learning remotely at home rather than returning back to school. About a week and a half after grades K-8 were allowed to return to in-person learning, data shows more than 10,000 eligible students at home, according to the Boston Herald. The district’s superintendent told the Herald that…

About one third of parents in Boston, Massachusetts decided to keep their children learning remotely at home.

Massachusetts schools officials are requiring all high school students in the state to be back in classrooms full-time by May 17.

Massachusetts school officials set a deadline for high schools to return to full-time in-class learning: May 17.

Mass. Gov. Charlie Baker announces an update on the outdoor mask mandate and new business reopening guidelines.

West Point officials say most of the 73 West Point cadets accused in the biggest cheating scandal in decades at the U.S. Military Academy are being required to repeat a year and eight were expelled.

A high school in Burlington, Massachusetts is moving class online Monday as officials deal with an outbreak of coronavirus cases, according to the district’s superintendent. In an email to families and staff Sunday, Superintendent Eric Conti said the district will switch to remote learning through April 12, citing 10 cases of COVID-19 in the past week. At least 130 Burlington…

In an email to families and staff Sunday, Superintendent Eric Conti said the district will switch to remote learning through April 12, citing 10 cases of COVID-19 in the past week. At least 130 Burlington High School students are now in quarantine.

A majority of parents felt their children’s education was compromised during the pandemic due to remote learning, according to a new poll. “Massachusetts residents have not been satisfied with the remote learning Massachusetts schools are providing during the pandemic,” Pioneer Institute Executive Director Jim Stergios said. “And they place a fair amount of the blame on the shoulders of...

In an email to families and staff Sunday, Superintendent Eric Conti the district will switch to remote learning through April 12, citing 10 cases of COVID-19 in the past week. At least 130 Burlington High School students are now in quarantine.

A majority of parents felt their children’s education was compromised during the pandemic due to remote learning, according to a new poll from Emerson College.

Burlington High School in Massachusetts is pivoting to remote learning beginning Monday due to a spike in coronavirus cases, Superintendent Dr. Eric Conti confirmed Sunday. In an email sent to the families and staff, Conti said the switch to remote learning will last through the week of April 12. Conti cited 10 cases of COVID-19 in the past week impacting…

As more kids return to classrooms in Massachusetts, the number of cases in school is on the rise, albeit slightly. Should we be concerned?

School today will be considered a snow day as they hope to resume classes tomorrow.

A massive infusion of federal money through the American Rescue Plan has advocates, politicians, and community members across Vermont more confident than ever that infrastructure investments will allow for the completion of a long-discussed goal to make sure everyone in the state can access broadband. The administration of Gov. Phil Scott, R-Vermont, proposed spending just over $250 million in American…