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2 Somali Americans Become Public School Principals In Minnesota For The 1st Time

NPR's Sarah McCammon speaks with Akram Osman and Abdirizak Abdi about becoming two of the first Somali American public school principals in Minnesota, a state with a large Somali population.

July 15, 2020
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Harvard University, shown here, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology sued the Trump administration over a rule change that would have barred international college students from taking fully online course loads in the United States. In court on Tuesday, a judge announced that the government would rescind the directive.

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  • Education

ICE Agrees To Rescind Policy Barring Foreign Students From Online Study In The U.S.

A federal judge announced on Tuesday that ICE has reached an agreement with schools that sued it over the rule change. The directive will now be rescinded nationwide.

July 14, 2020
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  • Rachel Treisman
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  • Education

ICE To Rescind Regulations Regarding International Students

Immigration and Customs Enforcement will rescind regulations barring international students from staying in the U.S. if their colleges offer online-only classes this fall.

July 14, 2020
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  • Elissa Nadworny
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  • National

Orange County Education Board Member On Her Vote For Schools To Reopen Without Masks

NPR's Sarah McCammon talks with Lisa Sparks, a member of the Orange County, Calif., Board of Education, about why she approves of the plan to reopen public schools without masks or social distancing.

July 14, 2020
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  • GPB Newsroom
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A Look At Betsy DeVos' Role During The Coronavirus Pandemic

Pandemic has put Education Secretary Betsy DeVos in the spotlight — she uses her power to promote private school interests but has also had to backtrack on her support of virtual schooling.

July 14, 2020
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  • Cory Turner
Kimberley Chavez Lopez Byrd died after testing positive for coronavirus. Other teachers she worked with tested positive as well. "She was a very loving, very faithful person and she was very kind," says her colleague Jena Martinez-Inzunza.

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  • Education

A Teacher Who Contracted COVID-19 Cautions Against In-Person Schooling

Three teachers in rural Arizona contracted COVID-19 after working together in a classroom. One of them died. NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Jena Martinez-Inzunza about her experience.

July 14, 2020
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  • James Doubek
GPB  NPR

Trump Administration Rescinds Rule On Foreign Students

The Trump administration has rescinded a rule that would have required international students to transfer schools or leave the country if their colleges...

July 14, 2020
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  • Associated Press
Pedestrians in Harvard Yard in 2019. Schools and businesses have gone to court to stop the Trump administration from barring online-only international students from entering or staying in the United States.

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  • Education

Schools, Businesses, Cities Push Back On Rule Blocking Some International Students

The Trump administration says it will ban international students in the fall if their education is online-only. Colleges and businesses say that decision could devastate the economy.

July 14, 2020
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  • Matthew S. Schwartz
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  • Education

Drop-Off In Lottery Sales Will Hurt States' School Budgets

Lotteries across the country are hurting with revenues down hundreds of millions of dollars. That could have big implications for states that rely on that money for a portion of education funding.

July 14, 2020
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  • Peter Medlin
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  • Education

U.S. Rule Blocking Some International Students Gets Pushback

A hearing Tuesday may decide the fate of international students after it was announced that they would be prohibited from being in the U.S. if their schools only had online classes this fall.

July 14, 2020
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  • Elissa Nadworny
Classrooms at Vista Middle School sit empty during the 2019 Los Angeles teacher strike. Los Angeles schools emptied out again in the spring because of the coronavirus.

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  • Education

Los Angeles And San Diego Schools Announce Online-Only Fall

The districts cite "skyrocketing infection rates" in the coronavirus pandemic in Southern California.

July 13, 2020
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  • Anya Kamenetz
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  • Education

N.C. Teacher Expresses Her And Other Teachers' Concerns About Reopening Schools

NPR's Sarah McCammon talks with Tamika Walker Kelly, president of the North Carolina Association of Educators, about what she and other teachers think as they prepare to start the school year.

July 13, 2020
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  • GPB Newsroom
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Many Arizona Educators Urge Governor To Delay The Start Of School

Arizona's governor pushed back the reopening of schools by a couple of weeks. The teachers union and state school superintendents want no in-person classes until at least October.

July 13, 2020
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  • Rocio Hernandez
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  • Education

Coronavirus Pandemic Spotlights Problems With Online Learning

How can schools ensure that students have what they need for ongoing remote learning? NPR's Rachel Martin speaks with Nicol Turner Lee, who studies digital divides in education.

July 13, 2020
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  • GPB Newsroom
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  • Education

When Schools Reopen, Grandparent Caregiver's Safest Choice Is Home Schooling

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Keith Lowhorne, a caregiver to his three young grandchildren, about the possibility of schools reopening in the fall amid the coronavirus pandemic.

July 13, 2020
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