There are 17 article(s) tagged COVID-19 school reopening:

• August 2021

  • Collierville parents push for choice following mask mandate

    Parents in Collierville are divided on the Shelby County Health Department’s mandate and the district’s decision to align its guidelines accordingly. 

    By Abigail Warren August 09, 2021

• July 2021

  • Collierville Schools releases COVID guidelines

    Collierville Schools is also recommending students who are sick stay home.

    By Abigail Warren July 26, 2021

• March 2021

  • Freedom Preparatory Academy schools to reopen March 8

    Freedom Preparatory Academy charter schools will re-open their school buildings, starting with kindergarten and first- graders, Monday, March 8.

    By Daja E. Henry March 04, 2021

  • SCS students return to classrooms for first time in a year

    Monday was the first day of in-person classes for Shelby County Schools.

    By Daja E. Henry March 01, 2021

• February 2021

  • Emotions mixed as SCS students head back to buildings

    SCS teachers are preparing to be joined in their classrooms by students for the first time in nearly a year. 

    By Daja E. Henry February 28, 2021

  • County Commission urges state to move up teacher vaccinations

    The resolution, approved Monday, Feb. 8, in a unanimous vote, isn’t binding on the state. But it calls on the state to move teachers up in the vaccination line as a condition for reopening the state’s largest school system.

    By Bill Dries February 08, 2021

• January 2021

  • New bill aimed at urban school districts: Give students 70 days of in-person education or else

     If it passes, Tennessee’s two largest school systems would have to reopen quickly to meet that threshold.

    By Laura Faith Kebede, Marta W. Aldrich January 20, 2021

• October 2020

  • Bartlett, Germantown school leaders see more students returning soon

    Germantown Municipal Schools District Superintendent Jason Manuel and Bartlett City Schools Superintendent David Stephens talked on “Behind The Headlines” about changing local health department requirements that require students in schools to wear masks and be 6 feet apart at all times.

    By Bill Dries October 09, 2020

• September 2020

  • Schools open before Labor Day break with varying plans

    The seven public school systems in Shelby County opened in one way or another before the Labor Day weekend with plans that vary to some degree.

    By Bill Dries September 05, 2020

• August 2020

  • Several schools return to in-person learning

    It’s the first time students have attended in person school in Shelby County for nearly five months.

    By Abigail Warren, Omer Yusuf August 11, 2020

  • Tennessee, among first to reopen schools in person, serves as ‘experiment’ in COVID safety

    Starting with small clusters of students, a Tennessee school became one of the nation’s first to reopen its campus to students during the pandemic. Within two days, a teacher with the sniffles tested positive for COVID-19.

    By Marta W. Aldrich August 04, 2020

• July 2020

  • Opinion: When will schools be safe to reopen?

    Rather than argue about reopening schools, we should be defining levels of risk and setting metrics for stages of reopening. When will it be safe for pre-K and early elementary to resume in-person learning? When will it be safe for middle and high schools to begin hybrid learning?

    By James Aycock July 30, 2020

  • Gov. Lee recommends in-person classes, outlines contingency plans

    Gov. Bill Lee outlined the contingency plan the day after Shelby County Schools Superintendent Joris Ray said a safe reopening of in-person classes was "largely a myth" with the number of COVID-19 virus cases growing. The Memphis and Nashville school systems are the only two in the state starting the school year with online classes only.

    By Bill Dries July 29, 2020

  • State Board rejects school district requests to waive physical education, class size

    But citing the need for districts to adhere to social distancing guidelines, the board granted 56 requests to waive duty-free lunch breaks for teachers. 

    By Jacinthia Jones July 25, 2020

  • 80 gather to protest in-person instruction in Memphis schools

    A Memphis protest echoes a growing call from teachers to start the school year online as coronavirus cases rise nationwide. A recent study of nearly 65,000 people in South Korea showed that children over age 10 spread the coronavirus as easily as adults do.

    By Laura Faith Kebede July 22, 2020

  • Opinion: Adverse childhood experiences, schools and COVID

    We are now attempting to place responsibility for children on over-worked, over-stressed teachers. Rather than supporting families as we should be doing, we are throwing the children at teachers in overcrowded classrooms.

    By Elena Delavega, Gregory Miles Blumenthal July 22, 2020

  • Teacher anxiety grows as COVID cases surge weeks before school reopenings

    Teachers in Tennessee and across the nation face hard choices. Should I return to my school building? Should I pursue a remote teaching option if my district offers one? Should I leave the profession altogether?

    By Marta W. Aldrich July 21, 2020