More on schools and the coronavirus

Only a day after returning to school to plan the forthcoming school year, two staff members in Brooklyn public schools tested positive for COVID-19 https://t.co/T8gRZTS1Uo
— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) September 9, 2020

More than 20 New York University students were suspended for breaking the school’s new coronavirus-related policies as colleges across the country grapple with how to keep the virus from spreading on campus. https://t.co/9GGlTm8AeG
— NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt (@NBCNightlyNews) September 8, 2020

At schools around the US, suspensions — and dismissals — are rising along with Covid-19 cases.

And a growing number of students are seeing in-person classes canceled. https://t.co/py51CLNNwD
— Vox (@voxdotcom) September 5, 2020

What? Unpossible. There was no way to see this coming. https://t.co/CyEfRTi78E
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) September 7, 2020

Dozens of Indian University students were caught on video partying atop boats on Lake Monroe over Labor Day weekend https://t.co/sO615lkN1A
— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) September 7, 2020

This is frightening news and undermines the argument that younger Americans can get COVID with little impact. Left unchecked, myocarditis can be fatal. Trump and Pence need to stop recklessly carping about the need for college football. Follow doctors’ advice. https://t.co/InRMLI8J4j
— Joe Scarborough (@JoeNBC) September 3, 2020

"The University of Georgia reported 821 positive cases last week, nearly four times the total from the prior week."https://t.co/E7Qe7LYK9c
— Rachel Maddow MSNBC (@maddow) September 2, 2020

NEW — In call with Govs, top WH officials conceded sending kids back to colleges had caused the potential for mass COVID spread. They encouraged schools to NOT send the infected students back home, warning of another June-like outbreak.

W @matthewt_ny https://t.co/QspfeNwrM1
— Sam Stein (@samstein) September 1, 2020

Just announced: @NYCSchools will delay its start for in-person school until Sept. 21.
— Ida Bae Wells (@nhannahjones) September 1, 2020

An ousted Florida data scientist created a dashboard to track Covid-19 in US schools. She tells @chriscuomo, she built it because, "we've had no leadership at the federal level." https://t.co/OgYOPX3WyJ pic.twitter.com/GYlaTMxY3u
— Cuomo Prime Time (@CuomoPrimeTime) September 1, 2020

Up to 35% of COVID-positive athletes who play for Big Ten schools developed myocarditis, an inflammation of the heart that can be fatal, according to a new report. https://t.co/jWFv0I8Qvw pic.twitter.com/5TgNWBjtp3
— WebMD (@WebMD) September 3, 2020

It only took a few student parties for a coronavirus outbreak to spin out of control at the State University of New York at Oneonta. It is now the first SUNY campus to shut down because of the virus after trying to reopen for classes.https://t.co/Aoc5tWt269
— The New York Times (@nytimes) September 4, 2020

Dr. Fauci urges schools to keep students on campus as outbreaks of the coronavirus spread. https://t.co/sf6dJO0nRo
— NBC News (@NBCNews) September 4, 2020

More on the virus at schools

NEW: Maryland athletics has suspended “all athletics training activities” after reporting 46 positive COVID-19 cases, affecting 10 different teams.
— Daniel Oyefusi (@DanielOyefusi) September 3, 2020

It only took a few student parties for a coronavirus outbreak to spin out of control at the State University of New York at Oneonta. It is now the first SUNY campus to shut down because of the virus after trying to reopen for classes.https://t.co/Aoc5tWt269
— The New York Times (@nytimes) September 4, 2020

Florida’s COVID-19 cases in children have soared with schools reopening https://t.co/GeHA0ZYCto
— Andrew Weinstein (@Weinsteinlaw) August 30, 2020

Four sororities at Kansas State University have coronavirus outbreaks and the Greek houses have been told to quarantine for 14 days, a county health official said. https://t.co/zRsjKVglyi
— CNN (@CNN) August 29, 2020

At USC, the main source of COVID-19 cases isn't big parties, but innocent-seeming small gatherings. Three students tested positive after getting together to play Monopoly. Four more were infected as they gathered to study. https://t.co/mpNzxNAoqj
— Soumya (@skarlamangla) August 28, 2020

Three days. 500 new cases. https://t.co/H59FMxU028
— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) August 29, 2020

The University of Alabama reported an additional 485 confirmed cases of COVID-19 among students, faculty and staff since in-person classes resumed on Aug. 19, bringing total cases up to 1,052. https://t.co/A08ucMsAmQ
— Axios (@axios) August 29, 2020

Another reflection of the pressure on public universities in red states from GOP governors channeling Trump's pressure on them to display normalcy at all costs-even as infections spread on many campuses. https://t.co/g3u8m6ZxyD
— Ronald Brownstein (@RonBrownstein) August 27, 2020

NEW: Towson University will close its campus for in-person classes after a significant number of students test positive for COVID-19 just before students returned to classes Monday. https://t.co/JyhvHVj2Or
— The Baltimore Sun (@baltimoresun) August 26, 2020

Florida confirmed 9,000 new coronavirus cases among children within 15 days as schools reopen https://t.co/A8A8AVjpsn pic.twitter.com/h0DnUHDsCl
— The Hill (@thehill) August 25, 2020

"This is a danger to our community." Parents and teachers want to know about coronavirus outbreaks in schools, but some districts are hiding information about cases, stoking fear and anger. https://t.co/DVFCX27b0x
— Dan Levin (@globaldan) August 22, 2020

Coronavirus and schools 8/20/20

*COLLEGE COVID-19 UPDATE*

{PART I}

🟦 UNC: closed down.
🟩 MICHIGAN STATE: closed down.
🟨 NOTRE DAME: closed down.
🟥 ALABAMA: 566 cases in 1 week.
🟥 IOWA STATE: 305 cases in 1 week.
🟧 AUBURN: 208 cases in 1 week.
🟨 MISSOURI: 159 cases, <1 week.
🟨 IOWA: 111 cases, <1 week.
— Seth Abramson (@SethAbramson) August 25, 2020

I personally know two college students who have already returned home with COVID-19. This is a national disaster underway. https://t.co/O1a4EM6MnV
— Jennifer Hayden (@Scout_Finch) August 24, 2020

Whoa: "Northeastern U caught wind of poll by a student asking classmates whether they planned to attend parties. 115 yes, 640 no. When pollster was contacted by school, he turned over names of students who said yes. Northeastern sent email to them and parents dressing them down."
— Alec MacGillis (@AlecMacGillis) August 22, 2020

Documents obtained by The Daily Tar Heel show that before UNC announced its reopening plan, the administration received early warning messages from top medical professionals at the University predicting outbreaks of COVID-19 on campus.https://t.co/gkjut938XQ
— The Daily Tar Heel (@dailytarheel) August 21, 2020

University of Alabama on-campus testing had a 29% positivity rate Thursday. It was less than 1% on re-entry tests. https://t.co/4pMK8ABrp2
— Michael Casagrande (@ByCasagrande) August 21, 2020

Do you approve or disapprove of the way Donald Trump is handling education?

Approve 35%
Disapprove 62%

(Gallup Poll, 7/30 – 8/12/20)
trend: https://t.co/ZWtW0kpOzW
— PollingReport.com (@pollreport) August 22, 2020

Is it safe to reopen schools?

Trump is pushing for schools to reopen with classroom learning but it is not a good idea in many places. Some schools that opened had to close.

When can schools safely reopen? The answer is part science, part guesswork. https://t.co/IzihZvRPWB
— ABC News Politics (@ABCPolitics) August 20, 2020

At least 15 states reporting Covid cases at colleges and universities

Almost 2,000 K-12 students in Mississippi have been quarantined in the state due to possible exposure to Covid-19, according to the state's department of health https://t.co/6Dmux66UPT pic.twitter.com/VTJVpKZQkM
— CNN Breaking News (@cnnbrk) August 19, 2020

Dear @realDonaldTrump

You are ACTIVELY refusing to listen to REAL MEDICAL EXPERTS and are doing EVERYTHING in your power to guarantee the DEATH OF MORE US CITIZENS.https://t.co/m8XYI6vsCE
— Don Winslow (@donwinslow) August 19, 2020

Last week, Mississippi had COVID outbreaks in schools in roughly half the counties in the state.

This week, the state health director says there are now outbreaks in schools in 71 out of the state’s 82 counties.

This really isn’t working. https://t.co/6EqoULHAFV
— Rachel Maddow MSNBC (@maddow) August 18, 2020

NEW: Coronavirus outbreaks in schools are mounting — but it is impossible to track all the cases.

The CDC isn't collecting any data on the virus in schools.

And least 9 states won't release any school outbreak data to the public.

w/@BenjySarlin: https://t.co/s1Vz6Xx88q
— Suzy Khimm (@SuzyKhimm) August 17, 2020

Which U.S. counties can safely open schools this fall? Times Opinion looked at the data to find out. https://t.co/bazribchFH
— New York Times Opinion (@nytopinion) August 14, 2020

97,000 children reportedly test positive for coronavirus in two weeks as schools gear up for instruction https://t.co/Z8OQePagmW
— CBS News (@CBSNews) August 8, 2020

"This is just another way we're flying blind in this epidemic."

— Laurie Garrett on coronavirus spreading in schools but the federal govt not keeping count. https://t.co/zL2Ybt7r7h
— MSNBC Live with Ayman Mohyeldin (@AymanMSNBC) August 20, 2020

No. Just no. If schools are going to reopen (now or in a few weeks or a few months), leaving teachers in the classroom who should be in quarantine will needlessly expose students and other staff. This is reckless, inhumane, and wrong. A pic.twitter.com/lp4duDLOPZ
— Elisa Cardnell (@ElisaCardnell) August 20, 2020

👀👀👀, more from Syracuse: "The students who gathered on the Quad last night may have done damage enough to shut down campus." https://t.co/zWnOOff6pB
— Chris Quintana (@CQuintanaDC) August 20, 2020

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — NC State University announces that all undergraduate courses will move to online instruction Monday amid virus pandemic.
— Zeke Miller (@ZekeJMiller) August 20, 2020

School district reopening plans

I know I ask this several times a year, but seriously: What would we do without @educationweek? https://t.co/iQkLOb3yJI
— Erica L. Green (@EricaLG) August 4, 2020

Israel opened schools. It did not go well.

This should be a lesson for the US…but it won’t be for Trump.

When Covid Subsided, Israel Reopened Its Schools. It Didn’t Go Well. https://t.co/pkjFfOnQix In response to heat wave, "the government exempted everyone from wearing masks for four days, and schools shut the windows [for A/C]. That decision proved disastrous, experts say."
— Linsey Marr (@linseymarr) August 4, 2020

“Israel’s advice for other countries?
“They definitely should not do what we have done. It was a major failure.”

* Tip: Read what they did, then comment*

When Covid Subsided, Israel Reopened Its Schools. It Didn’t Go Well. – The New York Times https://t.co/qQULXqTxWi
— Erica L. Green (@EricaLG) August 4, 2020

One of the defining features of the US Covid debacle has been refusal to learn from other countries. Now, as much of the country prepares to open schools, we should — but won't — look at what happened in Israel pic.twitter.com/aOqbr8Pi5E
— Paul Krugman (@paulkrugman) August 1, 2020

Israel reopened schools, while managing the virus poorly. Then the infections started in them. Schools became overrun with sickness. They closed again. Now, the government says that schools became the super spreaders, and set off an explosion of COVID../1 https://t.co/WjP9WT5B0t
— Kurt Eichenwald (@kurteichenwald) July 10, 2020

No touching, sharing or borrowing pencils. In Israel, families wonder if back to school means back to normal. https://t.co/6FHAibpPru
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) May 4, 2020

Hogan overrules local governments on schools

I go with the experts, not Hogan.

Between insisting on an in-person election despite public health experts’ unanimous opposition and now preventing jurisdictions from closing schools to protect teachers and students, @GovLarryHogan seems *determined* to kill Marylanders. https://t.co/qGKr2NTxe1
— (((Evan Serpick))) (@Serps) August 3, 2020

Maryland Republican Gov. Larry Hogan has overruled an order prohibiting some private schools in the state from conducting on-campus learning for the start of the academic year, including the school attended by President Trump's youngest son https://t.co/4nBQM9ZQjC
— CNN (@CNN) August 4, 2020

Translation: Breaking a pandemic requires collective action by ALL citizens — every cohort sharing sacrifice — but the affluent wish once again to opt out of shared responsibility. Our governor has heard their singular whine, because the GOP never fails to follow the money. https://t.co/OplgQGGRcM
— David Simon (@AoDespair) August 3, 2020

Biden’s plan for reopening schools

The media is not giving Biden’s proposals enough attention.

Joe Biden outlines his "roadmap" for reopening schools safely amid the pandemic https://t.co/7Bfeuh16Ga pic.twitter.com/0Ftz8p7s9j
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) July 17, 2020

Update on schools 7/12/20

Trump will ignore warnings about reopening schools. He has politicized the discussion on schools.

Always polarizing on schools, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos brushes off coronavirus risks | Analysis https://t.co/ntrfWJBEra pic.twitter.com/xrheYSUaK0
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) July 12, 2020

What’s really unfortunate is it seems any hope for a reasonable debate on school reopening suffered a major setback this past week, after state/district leaders spent months drafting plans and engaging and building trust in their communities to make these super tough decisions.
— Erica L. Green (@EricaLG) July 12, 2020

“Right now there are places around the country where the virus is spreading explosively and it would be difficult if not impossible to operate schools safely until the virus is under better control.” https://t.co/BOxTSBmZy8
— Jonathan Lemire (@JonLemire) July 12, 2020

One answer that struck me was DeVos conceding: “I can't, as a nonphysician or a nonmedical expert, tell you precisely what to do in the case of one child in a classroom or five children in a classroom….” [transmitting virus].

The experts who can have been sidelined/undermined. https://t.co/LI4j6UHEJo
— Erica L. Green (@EricaLG) July 12, 2020

DeVos praised this charter network during a televised press conference during which she trashed Fairfax Co. schools for offering families the option of all remote/ in-person instruction two days a week. https://t.co/2cN8AXv1Ij
— Erica L. Green (@EricaLG) July 12, 2020

.@BetsyDeVosED you have no plan. Teachers, kids and parents are fearing for their lives. You point to a private sector that has put profits over people and claimed the lives of thousands of essential workers. I wouldn’t trust you to care for a house plant let alone my child. https://t.co/Qs0Z7gCnMo
— Ayanna Pressley (@AyannaPressley) July 12, 2020

NYT: No nation has tried to send children back to school with the virus raging at levels like America’s, and the scientific research about transmission in classrooms is limited.https://t.co/OxuXKSXS15
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) July 12, 2020

BASH: "Yes or no: Can you assure students, teachers and parents that they will not get coronavirus because they’re going back to school?"

DEVOS: "Well, the key is that kids have to get back to school."#CNNSOTU
— Ryan Struyk (@ryanstruyk) July 12, 2020

Perspective: To DeVos, the virus is an excuse to strip public money from public schools https://t.co/QrHatjqyGO
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) July 11, 2020

1. Teachers are organizing into a national movement to demand schools stay closed until strict safety measures are in place or the virus is under control.

They say they do not feel safe or listened to. And Trump’s intervention has deepened their anger. https://t.co/yXz7T16psD
— Dana Goldstein (@DanaGoldstein) July 11, 2020

More on opening schools

So…on the same day the president was railing against C.D.C. guidelines on reopening schools, it turns out a special task force had compiled & circulated said guidance, along with best practices from across the country, that directly contradicted him. https://t.co/kp4TTOyqPU
— Erica L. Green (@EricaLG) July 11, 2020

One in four teachers is at a greater risk of serious illness if they contract coronavirus https://t.co/AL6U74OrlS pic.twitter.com/AODxrXdbra
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) July 11, 2020

President Trump has been on a rampage against public schools all week, threatening to use the power of the federal government to strong-arm officials into reopening classrooms.

But his effort is now creating a backlash https://t.co/Qm9Ww7rtND
— POLITICO (@politico) July 11, 2020