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After the district went fully remote last week due to a rise in coronavirus cases, the superintendent of Boston Public Schools is working to get students with the highest needs back in the classroom.

Class during COVID hasn’t been easy for any Massachusetts school districts, with some switching between remote and in-person learning as coronavirus case numbers rise and fall. Now an alarming preliminary estimate from a superintendent survey in early September seems to signal that a large number of students are leaving public schools for either private schools or for homeschooling. “It’s...

A survey from superintendents in Massachusetts has found that large amounts of students are leaving public schools for either private schools or for homeschooling due to the rise and fall of coronavirus cases.

As Boston Public School districts pivot to remote learning, we’re following one family on their back-to-school journey during an unprecedented year.

What does tea have to do with your kids’ fidgeting while they are trying to focus during at-home learning? Educator Gahmya Drummond-Bey, who has taught remotely in Asia during two pandemics, shares ways to work with your kids’ movement, and embrace it. It’s COVID during class for the latest #Mom2Mom.

Marblehead High School is going fully remote for at least two weeks after some students attended a house party Friday night where they were not social distancing or wearing masks.

There was always the possibility that students at Boston Public Schools would be required to return to an online-only setting. But that doesn’t make the move any less disappointing.

Beginning Thursday, all Boston Public Schools students will be learning remotely.

There was always the possibility that students at Boston Public Schools would be required to return to an online-only setting. But that doesn’t make the move any less disappointing.

Waltham is one of the many communities considered high-risk for the spread of the coronavirus.

Boston Public Schools has put its reopening plan on hold as cases in the city have increased.

With cases of the novel coronavirus going up, officials in Boston have decided to go back to remote only learning beginning Thursday.

With COVID-19 cases heading into the red in many communities and school districts juggling to adjust on the fly, it’s clear that remote learning is going to be part of the game plan for some time. Gahmya Drummond-Bey, a global curriculum developer who has taught overseas during two pandemics, stopped by Mom2Mom with Maria Sansone to share some tips...

For parents of children with disabilities, in-person school during COVID-19 has been a top priority. For these students and families, school is more than a classroom: It’s a place for one-on-one therapies and important socialization.

As remote schooling swept the nation, parents realized that many kids lacked desks at home

Despite rising coronavirus case numbers that lifted the city into the high-risk category on Massachusetts’ coronavirus hot spot map, Weymouth Public Schools is pushing forward with its hybrid learning plan. But that decision is being met with some skepticism. “If things change and things got worse, I would consider” fully remote learning, said parent Colleen Conners, who has two children…

School districts across Massachusetts have to look at coronavirus numbers on their own and then make their own decisions on whether to move to remote learning.

Pinkerton Academy in Derry, New Hampshire, has ended its fall sports season and is moving to remote learning through the rest of October because of “significant community exposure” to people with COVID-19, the headmaster said in a letter to the school community. Headmaster Timothy Powers said a person who was last on campus on Oct. 8 tested positive for COVID-19….

After someone exposed to a known coronavirus case went to campus, officials at Pinkerton Academy in Derry, New Hampshire, say they are switching to remote learning and canceling fall sports.

Although a decision has yet to be made, a judge on Wednesday heard arguments by the Boston Teacher’s Union’s saying schools aren’t safe for in-person learning.