w1-brandypg What We’ve Learned About School Closures for the Next Pandemic

　　

Over the course of 20 days in March 2020w1-brandypg, 55 million American children stopped going to school as Covid-19 swept the United States.

What was impossible to anticipate then was that millions of those students would not return to classrooms full-time until September 2021, a year and a half later.

Those children and teenagers, often in public schools in Democratic areas, remained online at home while private schools, child-care centers, public schools in conservative regions, office buildings, bars, restaurants, sports arenas and theaters sputtered back toward normalcy.

Five years on, the devastating impact of the pandemic on children and adolescents is widely acknowledged across the political spectrum. School closures were not the only reason the pandemic was hard on children, but research shows that the longer schools stayed closed, the farther behind students fell.

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What would happen if another health crisis came along — a pressing concern,betef slots as cases of measles and bird flu emerge? In the face of a new unknown pathogen, how would school leaders and lawmakers make decisions?

ImageAfter the earliest days of the pandemic, some schools reopened quickly. Others stayed closed for months.Credit...Hannah Yoon for The New York Times

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Last month, Chief Judge Albert Diaz of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, in Richmond, Va., writing for six judges, said that approach had created “a labyrinth for lower courts, including our own, with only the one-dimensional history-and-tradition test as a compass.”

The polls of these three states, taken from Sept. 17 to 21, presented further evidence that in a sharply divided nation, the presidential contest is shaping up to be one of the tightest in history.

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