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Pooled coronavirus testing could be coming to your child’s school in a couple of weeks. So what is it and how does work?

More than 300 Massachusetts schools and districts plan to start pooled coronavirus testing in February, in an effort to get students back in classrooms.

Some businesses in Boston will be allowed to open past 9:30 p.m. starting next week as the state eases some COVID-19 restrictions, but others will be required to remain closed under the city’s cautious reopening plan, Mayor Marty Walsh said Friday. In a press conference, Walsh said Gov. Charlie Baker’s lifting of the state’s early business closure order —...

Mayor Marty Walsh says Boston will allow some businesses to stay open past the 9:30 curfew starting next week, but the city will remain in phase 2, step 2.

With his stint as Boston mayor potentially coming to a close in the coming weeks, Marty Walsh warned of “concerning” coronavirus numbers as the city works to vaccinate people and bring students back to the classroom. Students in Boston Public Schools will be able to chose whether or not to return to in-person learning in waves between February and...

In-person learning will resume for the next wave of Boston Public Schools students on Feb. 1

Boston officials provided an update on vaccination rollout priority in the city.

In a push to get students back into the classroom, the Framingham Public School District is hiring additional staff to accomodate coronavirus needs. The city is looking to hire as many as 40 new people to fill positions in classrooms where teachers can’t return to school because of health concerns. Teachers would continue their instruction from home, but new staffers…

In a push to get students back into the classroom, the Framingham Public School District is hiring additional staff to accomodate coronavirus needs.

Gov. Charlie Baker announced Friday that the state will make weekly COVID-19 pool testing available to Massachusetts schools within the next month to help bring more students back into the classroom. The governor and his administration’s education officials have regularly been promoting in-person learning, and the governor said Friday that “too many kids remain learning remotely or in complicated...

As coronavirus cases in Massachusetts continue to spike, a new testing program for schools has been announced.

Gov. Charlie Baker announces a new pool coronavirus testing program in schools to begin within the next month in order to bring more students back to in-person learning.

While vaccinations are reason to hope, epidemiologists and public health experts say that the pandemic will continue to be a major factor in 2021. TODAY Health spoke to seven experts to get their thoughts on what the next year will look like.

In late September New York City reopened public schools with a warning of closure if the city’s COVID-19 positivity rate hit 3%. The New York Times chronicled the journey of Community School 55 in the Bronx and its fight to educate its students during a pandemic.

After months of remote learning in many parts of the country, new research is revealing how Black, Hispanic, and low-income students are disproportionately falling behind. Washington Post reporter Laura Meckler breaks down some of the reasons why remote learning is failing so many of our kids and the effects of long-standing equity gaps.

With a nationwide vaccine rollout poised to begin, a debate is underway about who should be given priority access. Miami-Dade County Public Schools Superintendent Alberto Carvalho says teachers are essential workers who play a vital role in our communities and should be near the front of the line.

President-elect Joe Biden on Tuesday outlined his plan to tackle the coronavirus pandemic in his first 100 days. He said he would require masks where he could under the law, secure 100 million vaccine shots and open a majority of schools.

The first report cards of the new school year are arriving with a lot more Fs than usual, and it’s not just parents who are getting distressed

After previewing the return of in-person learning ahead of Thanksgiving, Mayor Bill de Blasio returned from the holiday on Sunday to announce the scheduled return of public schools starting with elementary and special education students. The first school buildings will reopen Dec. 7, de Blasio said Sunday. City officials plan to reopen public school buildings in a phased approach, starting…

Massachusetts education officials reported more than 480 new coronavirus cases this week in schools across the state. The Department of Elementary and Secondary Education released the report on Wednesday, one day early due to the Thanksgiving holiday. The weekly COVID-19 report shows a total of 276 students and 206 staffers tested positive for the virus from Nov. 19 through Nov….