GOP LEGISLATORS CALL GOV. COOPER’S BLUFF ON CARES ACT RELIEF MONEY.

The push to reopen school reached a new level this week as mayors and governors on both sides of the aisle, as well as the president...

Systems should be consulting parents about what they want and for their ideas, working to ensure that they have the resources they need to keep education moving in their home or neighborhood.

School districts continue to struggle with critical decisions, union threats about national strikes, and parents are taking their children’s education into their own hands like never before.

Teachers unions are using Covid-19 as a political weapon.

“Go and set the world on fire.” Those simple words from St. Ignatius of Loyola, whose feast day is today, colored all of his works, most notably the establishment of the Jesuits, among whose leading contributions is Catholic education.

As school systems are struggling to manage the myriad challenges of reopening, the American Federation of Teachers Union President Randi Weingarten announced that her union had approved teacher strikes as a “last resort” to protest school reopening plans that do not meet its laundry list of demands and safety standards.

The reactions to a recent article about reopening school and the pernicious effects of delaying school, in any form, any longer, have reminded me of a fundamental tenet of good communication: Never assume your reader knows anything about your subject.

Instead of preparing to reopen schools, unions have spent their own members' time and resources on securing concessions and negotiating contracts.

Left, right and center, political reporters are knee deep in covering the impact and controversy over conflicting calls and demands to open school or limit everyone to learning remotely. Community, parent and teacher responses have been fast and furious. It’s hard to keep up. Nearly every hour of the day there is a new story…