Reopening K-12 Schools During the COVID-19 Pandemic Prioritizing Health, Equity, and Communities (2020) / Chapter Skim
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1 K12 Schools and COVID-19: Context and Framing
1 K12 Schools and COVID-19: Context and Framing
Pages 7-14
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c In addition, the impact of the pandemic has laid bare the deep, enduring inequities that afflict the nation in a wide range of areas, including the education system. The persistent disparities within the education system have come into sharp focus as schools and districts have grappled with how to provide meaningful learning experiences for all students as well as how to continue providing essential supports to families and communities, including meals and access to health care services while they operate their schools remotely.
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The committee met virtually five times over a 4-week period. To augment its own expertise, the committee heard testimony from outside experts on equity in education, child development, state education policy, school facilities, post-COVID inflammatory syndrome, and SARS-CoV-2 transmission in children.
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These guidance documents vary in the extent to which they focus on best practices for public health, the practical concerns of implementation in reopening and operating schools, the needs of students, and the needs of the education workforce. The nature of the evidence base grounding these documents also varies: as of this writing, many critical pieces of the COVID-19 puzzle remained missing.
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The guidance in this report is intended to provide a framework for use by education leaders as they make high-stakes political and practical decisions about reopening schools for the 2020–2021 school year: to the extent possible, we attempted to formulate recommendations that would assist stakeholders in determining not only whether to reopen schools but also how to reopen schools. The committee recognizes the challenges faced by many schools with respect to operationalizing a number of the reopening strategies considered in this report, and where possible has attempted to comment directly on the relationship between feasibility and effectiveness.
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health care system. There are significant, longstanding disparities in both individual and community health outcomes by education, income, race/ethnicity, geography, gender, neighborhood, disability status, and citizenship status (National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine [NASEM]
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REPORT PURPOSE AND AUDIENCES This report is intended primarily to provide guidance for those tasked with setting rules and parameters around school reopening and determining strategies for mitigating the transmission of COVID-19. The report is intended to provide insight for decision-makers especially concerned with weighing issues of health and safety alongside educational priorities
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Other intended audiences include parents and community members who are directly affected by these decisions. While the committee recognizes that many state, district, and schoolbased decisions related to school reopening are likely to be under way (if not completed)
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This chapter responds to questions 2, 3, 4, and 5 in the committee's statement of task. Chapter 6 lays out the committee's recommendations and highlights the urgent research needed to understand more fully the role of children in transmission, the risks posed to the community's health by operating schools in person, and the relative effectiveness of the wide range of mitigation strategies that schools are being encouraged to implement.
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