schools reopening

Northern Virginia Bureau Chief Julie Carey reports on some school districts wrestling with school mask decisions.

Schools have begun reopening in the U.S. with most states leaving it up to local schools to decide whether to require masks.

Parents and policy makers across the nation have been plunged anew into a debate over whether face coverings should be optional or a mandate when schools reopen

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention updated the guidance Friday.

Children are having their noses swabbed or saliva sampled at school to test for the coronavirus in cities such as Baltimore, New York and Chicago.

The Maryland State Board of Education voted to send students back into classrooms full time for the 2021-2022 school year. News4’s Justin Finch takes a look.

Fairfax County Public Schools students will be back in schools in-person all week starting this fall, administrators say they’re planning.  FCPS told families they’re preparing for a full return to the classroom after seeing success this spring with their “safe, steady, ready” approach to in-person instruction.  “We have shown that we can return our students and staff to our...

Masked and socially distanced, pre-K and kindergarten students in Fairfax County were set to begin in-class learning on Tuesday for a first day of school unlike any other. Fairfax County opted to open back up for its youngest students earlier than most elementary, middle and high school students. More groups of special education students were also set to return Tuesday….

Some pre-K and kindergarten students head back to school in Fairfax County Tuesday. For some of these kids, their first-ever day of school will be unlike any other. News4’s Justin Finch reports.

President Joe Biden says he wants most schools serving kindergarten through eighth grade to reopen by late April.

Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan issued an emergency executive order to allow private schools to allow in-person instruction. The order conflicts with Montgomery County’s directive that orders private schools to conduct online classes through October. News4’s Chris Gordon reports.

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine released a report on Wednesday with recommendations on how districts should prepare to reopen schools.

White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany denied that the White House pressured the CDC into relaxing their guidelines after President Donald Trump tweeted Wednesday that he disagrees with the CDC’s “very tough & expensive guidelines for opening schools.”

At a roundtable with President Trump on Tuesday, Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar advocated to reopen schools by citing social distancing, good hygiene and face masks as necessary and sufficient precautions to keep students and teachers healthy.

At a roundtable meetings about reopening schools, President Donald Trump praised the U.S. response to the coronavirus in limiting the number of Americans who have died, saying, “We saved of thousands of lives, hundreds of thousands of lives… we’re at [130,000 deaths] and we could be at way over a million right now and I think it could have been...

School districts in Virginia have already released plans for the upcoming year. It is expected Maryland schools will announce their plans next. News4’s Scott MacFarlane reports.

Educators, parents and students in Maryland are eagerly awaiting the news of what the next school year will look like. Gov. Larry Hogan announced on Wednesday schools would be closed for the remainder of the year and a new plan is developing for what it will look like when it’s back in session. The new plan, known as Maryland...

Maryland announced that they are considering many different possibilities to reopen schools and get students back in the classroom. News4’s Chris Gordon has the story.