ERIC Number: ED614032
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2021-Mar
Pages: 18
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School Reopening Trends Offer Districts the Opportunity to Start Planning beyond the Pandemic
Gross, Betheny; Opalka, Alice; Gundapaneni, Padma
Center on Reinventing Public Education
Across the country, the tides are beginning to turn on school reopening. Relief funding, policy guidance on safe reopening, declining cases, and increasing vaccination rates have cleared the way for students to safely return to classrooms. School districts are largely responding. The Center on Reinventing Public Education's (CRPE's) latest analysis finds that school buildings are reopening at numbers not seen since the pandemic began. This report's latest analysis of school district learning models from March 1 to March 13 finds that: (1) Only 10.7 percent of all districts are still fully remote. A clear majority--57 percent--of the nation's school districts report offering full-time in-person learning, the highest this number has been so far this school year; (2) Over 50 percent of urban districts have expanded their offerings for at least some in-person learning since our analysis in December, yet these districts still lag behind in offering full-time in-person learning, with 32 percent still remote; (3) In-person opportunities have increased across all grade levels, but middle and high school grades are still less likely to offer in-person opportunities; and (4) Of the districts that are not yet offering full-time in-person learning, 30 percent have announced phase-in plans over the next two months.
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, School Closing, School Schedules, School Districts, Public Education, Online Courses, Conventional Instruction, Elementary Schools, Middle Schools, High Schools, Rural Schools, Suburban Schools, Urban Schools, Distance Education, Blended Learning
Center on Reinventing Public Education. University of Washington Bothell Box 358200, Seattle, WA 98195. Tel: 206-685-2214; Fax: 206-221-7402; e-mail: crpe@u.washington.edu; Web site: http://www.crpe.org
Publication Type: Reports - Research
Education Level: Elementary Education; Junior High Schools; Middle Schools; Secondary Education; High Schools
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Language: English
Sponsor: Department of Education (ED)
Authoring Institution: Center on Reinventing Public Education (CRPE)
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