Some disabled rights advocates say until schools can adapt online lessons to assist every special ed kid, schools should not be allowed to use remote learning to finish this year’s curriculum. Fortunately, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos said no to that bit of zealotry — even if it did carry the day in school systems like Chicago’s. My new Cato post argues that the advancement of the student body as a whole should not be held hostage to anti-discrimination principles.
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Bowing to union demands, Oregon officials have cited the state’s coronavirus isolation order to shut down online (Internet-based) public schools to keep them from competing with regular old schools for pupils: https://www.wweek.com/news/schools/2020/03/26/oregons-virtual-charter-schools-are-the-definition-of-social-distancing-the-state-shut-them-down-anyway/
Of course, something has to be done for those students.
Washington state basically the same. Review only so far. Can’t have Zoom office hours so that students can ask questions unless there is a system for those who don’t have internet.
[…] remotely to teach new content rather than just review the old [Andrew Ujifusa, Education Week, earlier on controversy; Hans Bader on Arlington, Va. […]