School Choice in Year Two of the COVID-19 Pandemic
What does the landscape look like a year later? Modes of educational delivery are prisoner to the political rifts reflected in the blue and red pattern that reflects the state of our country.
October 08, 2021 at 12:18 PM
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A year ago, in October 2020, I authored an article titled, "The Students Most Affected by the New Era of School Choice." This Legal Intelligencer article outlined how the novel coronavirus (COVID-19 or the pandemic) impacted the educational placements of students, especially students with disabilities, given the expansion of learning options due to the pandemic. A year ago such educational options included: in-person instruction for a full five days a week; in-person instruction on an alternating schedule, remote instruction for those days when students were not in physical attendance; staggered in-person instruction between morning and afternoon sessions; or fully remote. As I wrote, "The landscape of education did not escape [the impact of COVID-19] and its profile is also impacted by these COVID-19 dynamics—on the one hand forcing parents and students out of their comfort zones, routines, and preferences, and on the other, ushering in a new genre of school choice."
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