Jenny Hamel

Wraparound service workers support families with food, technology, coping and life skills while students are learning remotely.

Experts say the ground that students have lost must be made up somehow.

The Cleveland Metropolitan School District (CMSD) is ready to vaccinate thousands of educators starting the middle of next week, including approximately 7,000 district employees, substitute employees and contractors, and about 2,000 to 3,000 employees from non-public and charter schools, CMSD CEO Eric Gordon said Thursday.

A petition to join teachers in getting vaccinated prompts Gov. Mike DeWine to reiterate the state's priorities of inoculating the elderly and returning K-12 students back to school in person.

After a mob stormed the U.S. Capitol Building Wednesday, federal authorities circulated dozens of photos and asked for the public's help in identifying suspects. Within hours, social media users mobilized to identify some of those photographed, alleging that one is a Willoughby woman who worked as a pediatric occupational therapist for the Cleveland Metropolitan School District.

The new federal coronavirus relief bill awaiting President Trump’s signature includes $54 billion for K-12 schools nationwide. The amount is four times more than schools received through the CARES Act, passed in March, but far less than what Cleveland Metropolitan School District CEO Eric Gordon asked Congress for this summer.

The educators share what is and isn't working as they continue in the remote learning environment.

The delayed return would allow more time for anyone with COVID-19 to recover before returning to school.

The Ohio legislature is expected to overhaul the state’s school funding formula by the end of its lame-duck session this month, the most recent attempt to address a system declared unconstitutional by the state Supreme Court four times. The state’s highest court found the existing system of relying on property taxes for school funding unfairly favored districts with higher property values. That system, in conjunction with Northeast Ohio’s history of redlining, disproportionately hurts majority-Black communities and school districts.

The risk of spreading the coronavirus increases when, outside of remote learning, students spend time in environments with little to no safety measures in place, experts say.