Week of 9/20: Approaches to Quarantines
This week we look at school closures (the up-to-date map can be found at the top of our School Opening Tracker page in addition to the visual below)...
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Week of 9/13: Closures by School Level
Through last Friday 98% of US K-12 students are back in school with New York City schools opening Monday. School closures continue to increase (the...
Dennis Roche
Sep 12, 2021
Week of 9/6: No Exceptions
Through 9/3 roughly 90% of US K-12 public school students have started school. This week over half the students in New Jersey, Oregon and Minnesota...
Dennis Roche
Sep 5, 2021
Week of 8/30: Disruption Trends
Through 8/27 approximately 75% of US K-12 students had started school. This week 15% of US K-12 students start, including the majority in Northeast...
Dennis Roche
Aug 29, 2021
Week of 8/23: Mapping Disruptions
On a percentage basis we saw a material increase in school closures this week and we have added a new map measuring the situation. The map can be...
Dennis Roche
Aug 22, 2021
Week of 8/16: Close Contacts
This week just over 25% of US K-12 students return to school, bringing the cumulative total to 62%.
Dennis Roche
Aug 15, 2021
Week of 8/9: "Test to Stay"
Through Friday August 6th, roughly 11 percent of US K-12 students had started school; many districts started Wednesday and Thursday. Arizona,...
Dennis Roche
Aug 8, 2021
Week of 8/2: Testing School Openings
Just over 10 percent of US K-12 students start school this week, with the majority of students in Hawaii, Mississippi, Arizona and Georgia starting,...
Dennis Roche
Aug 1, 2021
Week of 7/26: Staggered Start
The first K-12 schools opened this week and rising Covid 19 rates haven't affected announced start plans. We continue to note trends in testing and...
Dennis Roche
Jul 25, 2021
Week of 7/19: Fallback Plans
This week we look at districts who are dropping virtual learning days into their ongoing schedules, trends in Covid-19 testing, mask mandate changes...
Dennis Roche
Jul 18, 2021
Week of 7/12: First to Open
This week we highlight districts starting the school year earliest of those that were hybrid or virtual at the end of the 2020/21 school year. The...
Dennis Roche
Jul 11, 2021
Week of 7/5: What's Uncertain
Burbio's data was the basis for a study published on June 29th in the CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) on disparities in learning...
Dennis Roche
Jul 4, 2021