April will mark the one-year anniversary of CER’s COVID ACTION series supporting educators and parents to counter COVID’s impact on education.  At that time, we looked at what was happening across the states in the early days of the pandemic and the response of educators there.

ONE YEAR LATER… It’s clear that nothing short of policy change is needed to ensure that never again do we allow so much loss and neglect to occur simply because we are tied to one way of doing things. Where are the lessons? We look to Pennsylvania next week, where while state and district leaders allowed unions to control reopening and remote education was largely a failure for most, many heroic efforts to educate despite the odds stemmed learning loss for thousands

Featuring:

Keisha Jordan, Children’s Scholarship Fund Philadelphia

Nate Benefield, Commonwealth Foundation

Kenny Holdsman, Philadelphia Youth Basketball

Lawrence Jones, African American Public Charter School Coalition