On Monday, the Department of Education issued a letter to the Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference insisting that an LGBT rights case from June does not change the department’s position that schools are violating Title IX by allowing transgender girls to compete on girls’ teams.
On Wednesday, President Trump urged the schools of the nation to reopen coming the fall.
Many parents are saying that online school as it is now, is not working. Many are stuck juggling their own work-from-home jobs with their kids’ school needs. While some health and government officials warn that a return to five-day-a-week in-person school in the fall will be too risky, the Secretary of Education is pushing for reopening schools nationwide. It’s a high-stakes Catch-22.
This is the time for good-old-fashioned Christian innovation in education.
President Trump said in a news conference on Thursday that if schools decide not to reopen, then taxpayer funding should go to parents.
Despite having planned on opening for in-person classes come the fall, Catholic schools in Los Angeles county must now engage in distance learning as per new statewide regulations.
Along with other schools in the Ocean State — and a total of 45 states across the country — the public school where the church meets was swiftly closed due to concerns about the coronavirus. Those decisions affected not only schoolchildren, staff and their families but also the churches that had been meeting in those buildings on weekends.