Week of 3/14: Covid-Era In-Person Indexes
Over two-thirds of the Top 500 districts are now mask-optional. We take a look at national school opening indexes during the Covid-19 era, and...
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Week of 3/7: Mental Health Spending
This week there was an acceleration of districts shifting to mask-optional policies as several states moved up their dates for allowing local...
Dennis Roche
Mar 6, 2022
Week of 2/28: Majority Mask-Optional
For the first time the number of Top 500 districts that are mask-optional exceeds the number that are mask-required, and we expect that trend to...
Dennis Roche
Feb 27, 2022
Week of 2/21: Camps & Academies
Several more states have removed mask mandates, and we have started to see more Top 500 districts adopt mask-optional policies. School disruptions...
Dennis Roche
Feb 20, 2022
Week of 2/14: High Dosage, Low Ratio
Disruptions stayed at their reduced levels of the previous week. We revisit the mask mandate figures for the Top 500 as states announce policy...
Dennis Roche
Feb 13, 2022
Week of 2/7: Disruptions Plummet
Disruptions dropped dramatically this week to levels not seen since October. NCES published district level enrollment figures for 2020/21. This past...
Dennis Roche
Feb 6, 2022
Week of 1/31: Re-Mapping Mask Mandates
Disruptions continued their decline from last week. This week we introduce a revised Mask Policy Tracker that details the Top 500 districts across...
Dennis Roche
Jan 30, 2022
Week of 1/24: Slowdown
Last week we saw a gradual slowdown in disruptions across the US as schools that closed or went virtual over MLK Weekend reopened for in-person...
Dennis Roche
Jan 23, 2022
Week of 1/17: Long Weekend
Late this week there was an acceleration of disruptions across the country beyond the Northeast and Midwest regions that had seen the bulk of issues...
Dennis Roche
Jan 16, 2022
1/12 Update: Heading West
School disruptions slowed to start this week as the majority of the schools that were virtual last week did open back up for in-person learning....
Dennis Roche
Jan 12, 2022
Week of 1/10: Disruptions Update
We saw a continued rise in school disruptions as last week went on, driven by staff shortages. Several thousand schools that were virtual or closed...
Dennis Roche
Jan 9, 2022
1/5 Update: New Year Begins
Since last week we saw a rise in school disruptions driven by Covid 19 cases, in particular among staff. In this report we introduce a new...
Dennis Roche
Jan 5, 2022