Digital Smarts - How Are Decisions to Go to Remote Learning Being Made?

Equity -- along with health data, safety protocols, labor negotiations and political pressure -- is part of the equation in determining whether to reopen school buildings, education leaders say. Joris Ray, a superintendent in Tennessee, doesn't want to risk reopening when many of his district's families do not have health insurance, and Derek Turner, a district operations chief in Maryland, notes the "layers of complexity" involved in deciding in an article entitled Making a School Reopening Decision and Taking the Heat.