Nearly A Year Into School Closures, California Group Warns Of Harm To Students
An Unprecedented Education Crisis Exists In California After Nearly One Year Of Public Schools Remaining Closed, The Parent Union Argues.
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Remote Learning
Hamilton County Schools Host Public Virtual Budget Meetings For 2021-22 School Year
Hamilton County Schools Is Hosting A Series Of Virtual Community Budget Meetings Throughout February With The Aim Of Granting Hamilton County Families, School Staff & Community Members The Opportunity To Share Feedback As The District Begins Crafting Their Proposed Budget For The 2021-2022 School Year.
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Hamilton County Schools Shift to 4 Day Per Week In-Person Learning For Grades K-8
Starting next week (February 8 – 12), Hamilton County Schools Will Be Adding Grades 6 Through 8 To The Updated Phase 2 Schedule Allowing Students To Be On Campus Four Days A Week.
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COVID Exposed The Flaws In Federalized Education
When COVID-19 shut down classrooms from coast to coast, few districts had contingency plans to plug the hole it put in our children’s learning skills and plans for the next year. This impacted many of their SAT scores, scholarships, college entrance requirements and exams. With no strategic plans during a shutdown, and generous union contracts, school teachers across the U.S. collected full time checks while sitting home. States require schools to include 180 days of classroom instruction and teaching programs. But this was ignored around America. Teachers got paid if they worked or not and many children played with friends instead of doing lessons in quarantine. The only students schooled as usual were by home schooling parents.
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Public Schools’ Response To Pandemic Proof Parents Need More Options
Responses To The Pandemic Across The Country Exposed Weaknesses In All Aspects Of Society. But Arguably The Greatest Frailty Of Them All Could Be Seen In The Way That Our Public Schools Unraveled In The Past Year. Our Kids Are Suffering In So Many UnFathomable Ways. Americans deserve better, and choices for how we educate our kids with the tax dollars that we push forward to public education are vital. Not all kids are alike. My kids are no more important than yours. But our kids are all different and need customized solutions. The American public education system has been outdated, operates on an agrarian calendar and contributes significantly to our kids falling behind the world. If this moment isn’t the precise time to consider how we make education better, there won’t be another.
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Investment in Hamilton County / Chattanooga Internet Infrastructure Brings Benefits Of Over $2 Billion
Independent research finds that during the first ten years since EPB built America’s first Gig-speed network, the Chattanooga community has benefited to the tune of 2.69 Billion Dollars.
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Getting Tennessee Kids Back In the Classroom with School Board Member, Rhonda Thurman
Since the school shutdowns began due to the pandemic, learning loss and literacy in children have become hot topics in Tennessee. Reaching for Academic Excellence and Accountability for Teachers has fallen to the wayside, leaving children’s education and futures in question. Many frustrated citizens feel the edicts issued from State and Local Levels are putting children in more danger than the virus ever could. In this interview with Hamilton County School Board District 1 Representative, Rhonda Thurman, we discuss these topics, along with the ineffectiveness of remote learning, actual educational costs, school budgets, school choice and more.
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HCS Supplements Remote Learning With Live PBS Show; Governor and School Board Member Support In-Person Learning
District states that these broadcasts aim to be used to supplement, but not a replacement, for virtual learning. Gov. Lee expresses concern about learning loss associated with kids not receiving in-person learning. Thurman states keeping kids out of school is doing more harm than good.
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