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Students arrive for the first day of school on Aug. 10 at Sessums Elementary School in Hillsborough County, Fla. After thousands of students were put in isolation or quarantine, the district is revisiting its safety protocols, including its mask-optional

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In Florida, Texas And Arizona, Defiant School Leaders Are Sticking With Mask Mandates

6:12pm August 18, 2021

by Clare Lombardo

A legal tug of war is playing out in Texas, while Florida districts that enforce mask mandates could risk a state investigation and lost funding. Here's where the school masking battles stand.

School Officials In Miami-Dade County, Fla., Will Likely Defy Order And Require Masks

4:59pm August 18, 2021

by Greg Allen

Officials in Miami-Dade County in Florida have indicated they will defy an order from their governor and require students to wear face masks when they return to classes next week.

Workers help students move in to Selleck Hall, at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln.

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College Move-In Was Supposed To Mark A Return To Normal. Then Came The Delta Variant

4:53pm August 18, 2021

by Elissa Nadworny

College students are heading back to campus this month — and with the delta variant spreading, many aren't sure what to expect from this school year.

Some local governments and school districts in Texas are defying the governor's ban on mask mandates.

A Texas School Made Masks Part Of Its Dress Code To Get Around Gov. Abbott's Ban

3:05pm August 18, 2021

by Rachel Treisman

Gov. Greg Abbott — who announced Tuesday that he had tested positive for the coronavirus despite being fully vaccinated — has been fighting with local governments over masks for months.

Florida Schools Wrestle With Whether To Require Students To Wear Masks

8:08am August 18, 2021

by Greg Allen

Florida's Board of Education is taking action against school districts that defy the governor's order banning face mask mandates for students. Miami-Dade County will vote on masks on Wednesday.

Students Are Moving Onto Campus — Can Colleges Pull It Off Without A COVID Disaster?

5:30pm August 17, 2021

by Elissa Nadworny

Students across the country are headed back to campus for fall classes. With the delta variant raging, there are questions around how colleges can pull this semester off.

A new version of the Yik Yak app is only available currently in the Apple App Store in the United States. Here's a March 2014 photo illustration of the app in the Google Play store.

Yik Yak, The Anonymous App That Tested Free Speech, Is Back

4:40pm August 17, 2021

by Jonathan Franklin

Before shutting down in 2017, Yik Yak was used in hate speech and cyberbullying across college campuses and local schools. The app's new owners vow to take a strong stance against abuses.

'The State Must Provide' Is A Lesson On Inequality In Higher Ed, Past And Present

1:23pm August 16, 2021

by Terry Gross

Journalist Adam Harris explains how the higher education system has been built on an uneven foundation from the start — and how slavery, segregation and racism have stymied Black education.

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With The Taliban's Return To Power, Will Afghan Girls Keep Going To School?

7:24am August 16, 2021

NPR's Noel King talks to Pashtana Durrani, the executive director of LEARN, a nonprofit focused on education in Afghanistan, about the Taliban takeover and the situation there for women and girls.

A fleet of Broward County School Buses are parked in a lot on July 21, 2020, in Pembroke Pines, Fla. Three county educators have died of complications from the coronavirus.

3 Florida Educators Die Of COVID-19 Within 24 Hours As Schools Prepare To Reopen

2:41pm August 14, 2021

by Dave Mistich

Less than a week before schools are set to reopen in Broward County, Fla., local union officials say three educators have died of complications from the coronavirus. None of them were vaccinated.