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“It’s just exercise,” said Jeremy Gray, a state lawmaker whose bill is making its way through the Legislature. But some people still say the practice has no place in the classroom. For nearly three decades, teaching yoga in Alabama’s public schools has been forbidden by the state’s school board. One …

Amid an acrid national controversy, the agency proposed detailed criteria for returning students to classrooms. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Friday urged that K-12 schools be reopened as soon as possible, and it offered a step-by-step plan to get students back in classrooms and to resolve a …

In many places, the debates over reopening are fraught. But in a survey, experts broadly agreed that schools don’t need vaccines to open safely. Many of the common preconditions to opening schools — including vaccines for teachers or students, and low rates of infection in the community — are not …

The coronavirus variant discovered in Britain is more easily spread among children, as it is among adults. Current safeguards should protect schools, experts said, but only if strictly enforced. It wasn’t until last fall that many parents started to breathe easier, as it became clear that elementary schools, at least, …

HONG KONG — It started when a single box of free sanitary pads appeared in a middle school classroom in October. Then a plastic container with pads was attached to the walls of four bathrooms in a university in Shanghai. By Monday, boxes and bags of individually wrapped pads had …

Here’s what you need to know: High school parties force some Northeast schools in the U.S. to delay the return to classes. Trump defends his indoor rally, but some aides are concerned. L.A. begins a testing program expected to be among the most comprehensive U.S. school-based initiatives. A federal judge …

Here’s what you need to know: Distrust of the president hardened the conviction of some educators that teaching in person was unsafe. The number of new state unemployment claims in the U.S. fell below one million last week for the first time in months. New Zealand has a fresh outbreak. …

A newly published study by University of Michigan researchers shows facial recognition technology in schools presents multiple problems and has limited efficacy. Led by Shobita Parthasarathy, director of the university’s Science, Technology, and Public Policy (STPP) program, the research say the technology isn’t suited to security purposes and can actively …

Is it possible to reopen school buildings in the fall in a way that keeps kids, educators, staff and their families and communities safe from Covid-19? Is it possible not to do so without harming them in other ways? Already, school closures have set children behind academically. More than 20 …