Covered 19 has disrupted the school year for students of all ages and grades
across the country. The University of Washington became the nation's first
large college to close its classrooms, saying it will cancel in-person classes
and have students take classes and exams remotely instead.
Stanford and and Harvard.
And many colleges and organizations, they're canceling classes or they're going
to online learning not just for a couple of weeks, but for the rest of the
year. Colleges and universities move to remote learning through the end of the
semester. Elementary middle schools and high school closed as well at first,
temporarily effective Monday, March 16.
Will close all Los Angeles Unified Public Schools for two weeks, but now many
will continue remote learning through the end of the school year.
The remainder of the school year will be completed in the current remote fashion
and we will hold summer school in a similar manner.
So we're going to have the schools remain closed for the rest of the year.
We're going to continue the distance learning.
All New Jersey school buildings will remain closed for in-person instruction for
the remainder of the 2000 19 2020 school year and
that all students and faculty will continue with remote learning.
A massive transition of this kind brings unique challenges at every level.
We started from a standstill.
A bit like trying to fly a plane at 30000 feet, change the seats and
wiring in the midst of a thunderstorm running low on fuel.
The students are struggling with the social and emotional impact of
this. I've seen the message.
I never thought that I would miss school quite a few times because
schools are more than just academics.
They're getting the academic part and they're missing all the other things.
And I miss it, too. Standardized tests have been canceled.
Grading systems have changed.
And not every school and student has the resources needed to learn online.
A lot of the state assessments have been absolutely nullified.
They've been canceled. It is that type of flexibility that is so important at
this point to stabilize teaching and learning conditions as we know.