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Liz WillenDear reader,
 
Images of children being vaccinated are suddenly flooding the media. Grimaces, along with smiles of joy and liberation, are coming from kids (and their parents) at schools and mobile sites across the United States. But despite the growing availability of vaccines, there are families and districts that have come to appreciate virtual schooling and are sticking with it, at least for the foreseeable future.
 
Still, as we’ve learned by spending time with physical education teachers, there have been consequences of all that isolation, so there’s a new push to get kids moving again.
 
Finally, I’m asking all of our readers to spend a minute with an extraordinary parent, who describes in great detail the journey to get her immunocompromised son the public education he is entitled to in the nation’s largest public school district, New York City. As always, we want to hear what our readers think.

Liz Willen, Editor
 
Main Idea 

Some families don’t want to go back to in-person school. Here’s how one S.C. district is dealing with this demand 

With its new online academy, Fairfield County — where 90 percent of families live in poverty and 50 percent lack high-speed Internet — hopes to overcome problems with virtual school.
Reading List 

How PE teachers are tackling ‘physical learning loss’

Running a mile at school — or just doing a few jumping jacks — helps kids with academic and social emotional learning, but too many schools are giving PE short shrift, educators say.
 

Do fraught school board meetings offer a view of the future?

As meetings are dominated by fierce national debates, board elections may provide insight into what drives voters.
 

Women have been marginalized in the building trades. The infrastructure bill could change that

Advocates say the bill – along with workforce funding in Democrats’ domestic spending proposal – present an opportunity to bring down barriers that have long kept women and people of color from construction jobs.
 

It’s ‘unconscionable’: We depend on child care workers to provide high-quality care to our children. But many of those workers can’t afford food and rent

Child care workers are facing ‘significant challenges’ of food insecurity, eviction and emotional distress, report finds.
 

PARENT VOICE: My endless quest to get a good education for my immunocompromised child

Few options exist for kids who can’t be near others.
 

TEACHER VOICE: Our schools are not equipped to teach transgender students

Many thrived during remote teaching, but are now being left behind.
 

OPINION: Yes, Virginia, there is a national implication, and education equity is at its heart

Youngkin is said to have exploited anger around race and gender issues in schools to win the governor’s race. Here’s a powerful and very different education message.
 
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