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The union representing Austin Independent School District employees wants the schools to delay the first day of school, arguing that teachers need more time to learn how to teach their online classes effectively.
<p>The move would also give the community more time to stem the spread of the coronavirus before the state requires schools to start offering in-person classes, said Ken Zarifis, director of Education Austin, which represents 3,000 AISD teachers and employees.</p><p>Austin schools are set to start on Aug. 18 with virtual classes only. Schools across the state are given up to eight weeks to limit in-person instruction before they must start offering in-person instruction as an alternative for any family who wants to return to the classroom—or risk losing funding from the state if they don't have the approval to continue online only, according to <a href="https://www.texastribune.org/2020/07/31/greg-abbott-texas-schools-reopening/" target="_blank">recent rules</a> issued by the Texas Education Agency. </p><p>Schools do have the freedom to set their own official start dates, Gov. Greg Abbott <a href="https://www.texastribune.org/2020/07/31/greg-abbott-texas-schools-reopening/" target="_blank">has said</a>.</p><p>The union wants to see the official school start date moved to Sept. 8, both to let the virus subside and to give school teachers time to learn how to best serve students in virtual classes, Zarifis said. </p><p>"You have teachers that don't even know how to operate a Google doc, wouldn't even know how to videotape themselves for online instruction," he told Austonia. "It goes from that basic too much more complicated issues. Then you've got people who are completely adept at this, that know how to do it, and they could be training people on their own campus virtual. This is not happening." </p><p>Requiring in-person classes disproportionately affects families of color, he said.</p><p>The union also wants schools to delay in-person classes entirely until there have been no new virus cases in the community for at least two weeks. </p><p>The entire list of demands, which also include universal school safety guidelines, canceling STAAR and other related assessment tests, and guaranteeing 100% pay for all employees regardless of whether they choose to work from home, <a href="https://educationaustin.org/news/reopening-demands/" target="_blank">can be viewed here.</a></p>
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Texas Attorney General says local health authorities cannot 'indiscriminately' shut down schools
28 July
(Miguel Gutierrez Jr./The Texas Tribune)
A classroom in Cactus Elementary School in Cactus on Jan. 28, 2020.
By Aliyya Swaby, The Texas Tribune
Local health officials do not have the authority to shut down all schools in their vicinity while COVID-19 cases rise, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said in nonbinding guidance Tuesday that contradicts what the Texas Education Agency has told school officials.
<p>After Texas ordered schools to reopen their classrooms this fall, county and city-level public health officials began to push back, ordering all public and private schools in their areas to stay closed through August and in some cases September.</p><p>The officials cited a state law giving health officials authority to control communicable diseases. But Paxton said in the letter "nothing in the law gives health authorities the power to indiscriminately close schools — public or private — as these local orders claim to do....It does not allow health authorities to issue blanket quarantine orders that are inconsistent with the law."</p><p>The governor's executive order allowing all school districts to operate overrules local mandates to close, Paxton said. Local health officials have some authority to order schools closed if people in it are infected by COVID-19, but not as a preventative measure.</p><p>Paxton's statement could impact the at least 16 local authorities, many in the most populous counties, that have issued school closure mandates in the last month.</p><p>Earlier this month, Texas revised its statewide order that schools open classrooms to give officials more local flexibility on how long to continue with entirely remote education, especially in areas where the virus is spreading quickly. Districts can now limit in-person instruction for up to eight weeks with state approval.</p><p>The Texas Education Agency's <a href="https://tea.texas.gov/sites/default/files/covid/sy_2020-21_attendance_and_enrollment_faq_remote_only.pdf" target="_blank">guidance</a> says that schools may ban in-person classes if ordered to do so "by an entity authorized to issue an order under state law." And the agency confirmed to The Texas Tribune earlier this month that school districts under such mandates would not lose state funding if they closed classrooms. But it was confusing to education officials and school communities exactly which entities were allowed to do so, and when state guidance trumped local law.</p><p>A request put in to Gov. Greg Abbott's office to clarify this was not responded to earlier this month.</p><p>The confusion had resulted in anger and panic in some communities that wanted their schools to reopen. Families protested outside the Tarrant County administration building Monday demanding officials allow their schools to hold in-person classes before Sept. 28, <a href="https://www.dallasnews.com/news/education/2020/07/27/parents-want-schools-opened-sooner-but-tarrant-county-judge-says-thats-not-so-easy-during-coronavirus-pandemic/" target="_blank">according to the Dallas Morning News.</a></p><p>Paxton had already said religious private schools were exempt from following the order, in guidance released earlier this month.</p><p><em>Stacy Fernández contributed to this report.</em></p><p style="text-align: center;"><em><a href="https://www.texastribune.org/2020/07/28/texas-schools-ken-paxton/" target="_blank">Originally published</a> at <a href="https://www.texastribune.org/" target="_blank">The Texas Tribune</a>, a nonpartisan, nonprofit media organization that informs Texans—and engages with them – about public policy, politics, government and statewide issues.</em></p>
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STAAR decorations adorn the hallways of Wharton Elementary School in 2018.
By Aliyya Swaby, The Texas Tribune
Texas students will still have to take the STAAR test next year, but fifth and eighth grade students will be able to move on to the next grade even if they fail, Gov. Greg Abbott announced Monday.
<p>State education officials <a href="https://www.statesman.com/news/20200630/coronavirus-or-not-texas-students-must-take-staar-in-2020-21" target="_blank">announced earlier this summer </a>that third through 12th grade students would take the state standardized exams, or STAAR, this upcoming academic year. Normally, fifth and eighth graders must pass the STAAR in order to move on to the next grade or else they must re-take it later that year or over the summer. But Abbott said that next spring, the fifth and eighth grade math and reading exams would only be administered one time, in May.</p><p>He also said schools and districts would continue to receive an A-F rating based on students' test scores, "albeit with certain adjustments due to COVID-19." The statement did not elaborate on those adjustments.</p><p><a href="https://www.texastribune.org/2020/03/18/texas-lets-school-districts-say-whether-students-can-graduate-without/" target="_blank">Last spring</a>, after school buildings began closing because of the pandemic, Abbott gave school districts flexibility to decide on fifth and eighth graders' promotions based on students' grades, academic information and teachers' opinions. Student scores on the STAAR also determine whether high school students and graduate and whether schools can remain open. In normal circumstances, high school students must pass five subject-specific standardized tests in order to graduate. Abbott's release did not mention waivers for those students.</p><p>Parents, educators and lawmakers from both parties have been urging Abbott to call off testing requirements for the upcoming school year because of how the coronavirus pandemic has interrupted students' usual learning environment.</p><p>But Abbott said the test was necessary to provide a high-quality education for students. "By waiving these promotion requirements, we are providing greater flexibility for students and teachers, while at the same time ensuring that Texas students continue to receive a great education — which we will continue to measure with high quality assessments," he said in a statement Monday.</p><p>The decision to continue administering the STAAR came days after federal officials said not to expect a waiver from federal testing requirements next spring. Jim Blew, an assistant secretary to Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos,<a href="http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/campaign-k-12/2020/07/devos-not-give-testing-waivers-next-year.html" target="_blank"> told reporters at an event</a> Friday that testing provided many benefits, including showing where students fell behind due to the pandemic.</p><p>Last spring, the Trump administration announced it would not enforce federal standardized testing requirements that school year because of the coronavirus.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><em><a href="https://www.texastribune.org/2020/07/27/staar-texas-fifth-eighth-grade/" target="_blank">Originally published</a> in <a href="https://www.texastribune.org/" target="_blank">The Texas Tribune</a>, a nonpartisan, nonprofit media organization that informs Texans—and engages with them – about public policy, politics, government and statewide issues.</em></p>
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One Austin family's struggle: The plight of students with disabilities in the virtual-school debate
24 July
(Dr. Stephen Sherwood)
When the pandemic shut down Austin student Grant Sherwood's school along with the rest of the district in March, continuing his education online was simply not possible.
<p>For Grant, a 20-year-old with cerebral palsy and severe cognitive disabilities, education is almost entirely social and emotional skill-building, practicing communication and finding joy in being with people like himself. </p><p>So when his teacher at Rosedale School attempted Zoom video sessions with him, as educators across the district were instructed to do, Grant was so dismissive that it was almost comical, said his father, Dr. Stephen Sherwood, a pediatric dentist in Austin. </p><p>"He would just start saying 'goodbye!'" his father said with a chuckle. "His learning is very, very delayed. He has the ability to learn, but learning online is not even an option for him." </p><p><strong>In-person or not at all</strong></p><p>Earlier this week, Dr. Mark Escott, interim health authority for Austin and Travis County, told county commissioners that he strongly agreed with a recent national study urging schools to prioritize younger children and special education programs as they come up with ways to reopen schools to in-person classes. </p><p>They were welcome words for the Sherwoods, who are outliers in an increasingly tense national debate, as parents and politicians weigh the pros and cons of sending kids to school in person during a pandemic or keeping them home to learn virtually until COVID-19 cases flatten.</p><p>For Grant, who will need round-the-clock physical and medical care for the rest of his life, there really is no debate, and there is certainly no "pro" to online learning.</p><p>This fall, Grant will be entering his third year at Rosedale, an Austin ISD campus that specializes in teaching and caring for children with severe disabilities up through age 21.</p><p>Without the doors open, there is little role that Rosedale—which Sherwood described as a warm and nurturing place—can play in Grant's life.</p><p>"He enjoyed riding the bus, he was at school all day long," he said. "His teachers, his classmates—he just really thrives on having his regular social interaction with the people in his life." </p><p><strong>Social distancing is difficult</strong></p><p>Sherwood, whose wife Krista stays home to take care of Grant and their other three kids, ages 13, 16 and 18, while he works, also recognizes how difficult it would be for students like Grant to follow health guidelines at school. </p><p>In Grant's case, he coughs a lot, and he won't keep a mask on, which means the family can't really take him anywhere that requires it, Sherwood said.</p><p>"They don't have the ability to really control how they spread their germs," he said. "It's just a hard situation because we want our teachers to be safe, too, and don't want to put them at additional risk." </p><p>He believes the school will advocate for Grant and the other students, and that administrators will work to bring them back as soon as possible. </p><p>Sherwood said they'll take anything they can get, because while the tight-knit family has enjoyed some aspects of so much togetherness, the isolation has taken its toll on everyone. </p><p>"His cognitive disability is such that he can't tell us, 'Man, I really am bummed out because I can't see my teachers and my friends,'" Sherwood said. "But we've noticed that he's not really been himself."</p><p>With no plans announced and no real idea when Grant will be able to go back, there's not much to do but play the waiting game that's been dragging on through an exhausting summer. </p><p>"We'll just keep doing what we've been doing," Sherwood said. "One day at a time." </p>
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Back when being a freshman in high school meant noisy hallways teeming with teenagers and weekends overflowing with dances and games and first dates, Cassidy Miller, 14, had things to look forward to in ninth grade.
<p>But now, as <a href="https://austonia.com/education/austin-school-closures" target="_blank">Travis County schools delay opening </a>and attempt to keep the coronavirus from spreading, Cassidy imagines high school to be a warped version of the all-American experience she excitedly anticipated.</p><p>Masks on everyone, isolated lunches, Plexiglass dividers, fear of the virus. No pep rallies, no fun.</p><p>Cassidy wants to go anyway. </p><p>"It's hard not knowing what you're missing out on and feeling like you're not a part of something," she said. "I miss all my friends, a lot."</p><p><strong>Weighing isolation against risk</strong></p><p>Teenagers and young adults <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/18/health/coronavirus-children-schools.html" target="_blank">are believed to spread the illness more easily</a> than their younger counterparts, but there are also compelling arguments<a href="https://austonia.com/Coronavirus/teen-pandemic" target="_blank"> suggesting the emotional and academic costs </a>of online-only classes could be disproportionately high for older kids.</p><p>And so for their parents, the decision on whether to let them go to high school in person or keep them home for online classes is fraught with contradictions.</p><p>Pitting academic success and their own mental health against the risk of exposing themselves and their families, older students are in a lose-lose scenario.</p><p>"It's such an unnatural and unfair situation to put young people in," said Kate Volti, Cassidy's stepmom, who wants to see a better pandemic situation before she feels comfortable with Cassidy returning in person.</p><p>Outside the social aspect, Cassidy also says she needs a collaborative classroom and plenty of structure in order to do well in her classes, which she said was lacking in the spring when classes were online.</p><p>Ariela Choiniere, a 16-year-old Austin junior in the marching band, is willing to go online because she believes school isn't safe enough yet—but she's also hoping to find a way to get around it a little bit.</p><p>"If there's one day where band says I have to be there, I'm pretty sure [the administration] won't mind if I'm there in school for that day," said Ariela, who faced challenges with the online technology last semester, in part because of her dyslexia.</p><p><strong>Considering other kids</strong></p><p>Some households also have the complicating factor of younger siblings.</p><p>Volti and her husband, Mike, plan to avoid day care and in-person school for their younger son and daughter, ages 8 and 3.</p><p>But their learning "pods"—in which a handful of families come to a quarantine agreement and agree to only socialize and learn with each other—would only remain an option if Cassidy doesn't attend school in person, because the other families say they worry about her being exposed and then putting them at risk, Volti said.</p><p>"I totally get it. Nobody's doing anything that's wrong or illogical," Volti said. "But it's a really tough situation where it feels like the best interests of one kid is sort of at odds with the best interests of another kid."</p><p>Then there's the disconcerting notion of a high school experience—Cassidy calls it "scary"—that will look very different from what students are hoping to recapture by going back in person right now.</p><p>"High school and the social dynamics of high school are ingrained in the fabric of our society. We're fascinated, we cling to it. And that's just been turned on its head," Volti said. "Since we can't achieve normal, is the benefit of what is left of that experience really worth the risk?"</p>
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A top local health official is backing a study that recommends school districts prioritize reopening for K-5 and special education programs, attended by students who the survey said would be most disadvantaged by online education.
<p>Austin-Travis County Interim Health Authority Dr. Mark Escott suggested the staged reopening might be best during a Travis County Commissioners Court meeting on Tuesday, citing the 100-page consensus study by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine.</p><p>"[The Academies] really call for districts to weigh the risks of health against the educational risks of providing no educational instruction," Dr. Escott said, adding that many students rely on school for other services than education.</p><p>Students in kindergarten through third grade are especially in need of in-person education, per the study, because they are developing reading skills, which determine the rest of their educational careers. Students with special needs, similarly, may rely on social support and technological resources in schools that may not be available at home. </p><p>Dr. Escott said Austin school districts should learn from the state's previous reopening attempt, which opened businesses too quickly, leading to increased transmission of COVID-19 and a second round of closures. By taking a more measured approach, schools may be able to prevent future shutdown, which would further disrupt student learning. </p><p>"We can't implement strategy after the schools are reopened," he told commissioners. "Now's the time to ensure that these measures are in place so that we can open and stay open." </p><p>Last week, Dr. Escott ordered all public and private schools in Austin and Travis County not to reopen for on-campus, face-to-face instruction <a href="https://austonia.com/education/austin-school-closures" target="_self"><u>until after Sept. 7</u></a>. The Texas Education Agency also <a href="https://austonia.com/education/tea-guidelines-2646425874" target="_self"><u>changed its guidelines</u></a> for the fall semester and will allow schools to have online-only instruction for the first eight weeks of the school year, which would be until Oct. 13 for Austin ISD. </p>
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<p>"There are robust constitutional and statutory protections unique to religious individuals and communities, specifically including religious private schools," Paxton wrote in the letter. "In accordance with the protections granted by the First Amendment and Texas law, this guidance allows religious private schools to determine for themselves when to reopen free from any government mandate or interference."</p><p>Read the letter here:</p><div class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="32fc873d279869b56c11f00dc808099e" id="46929"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet twitter-custom-tweet" data-partner="rebelmouse" data-twitter-tweet-id="1284194377854746627"><div style="margin:1em 0">In accordance with the protections granted by the First Amendment and Texas law, this guidance allows religious pri… https://t.co/chYi9lSJVh</div> — Texas Attorney General (@Texas Attorney General)<a href="https://twitter.com/TXAG/statuses/1284194377854746627">1595010773.0</a></blockquote></div>
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<p>TEA Commissioner Mike Morath announced that schools will be allowed to adopt a four-week transition period with 100% virtual instruction. Afterwards, they will be able to adopt an additional four weeks if necessary. </p><p>"Our framework ensures that there will be on-campus instruction available for all students who need it in the state of Texas," <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ee_H01EDm-4&feature=youtu.be" target="_blank">Morath said in a video address</a>. "But at the same time, we know we need to provide local schools with flexibility to adapt to local health conditions, especially given the rise in COVID cases that we're seeing across the state."<br/></p><p>Morath said the agency came to the new guidelines with input from students, parents, teachers and medical professionals.</p><p>"We will support flexibility at the local level to ensure all of our schools remain safe and are available to our kids," he said.</p><p>See the guidelines here:</p><p><br/></p>
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