A crisis for education

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🗓️ 15 July 2020

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Los Angeles Unified School District Superintendent Austin Beutner on the decision to keep public schools online in the fall. Laura Meckler explains the delicate dance local districts are facing with whether to allow students on campus. And Nick Anderson, on a victory for international college students.

California’s two largest districts will keep students home as the pandemic worsens.

With coronavirus science still iffy, U.S. schools hope to reopen for 56.6 million K-12 students.

The Trump administration has dropped its plan to strip international college students taking only online classes of their visas.

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0:26.0	Hi, it's Robert Gabon, at the Washington Post.
0:29.1	This is Post Reports.
0:30.8	I'm Martin Powers.
0:34.3	It's Wednesday, July 15th.
0:39.4	Today, one school districts choice on whether to reopen and how other districts are making that decision.
0:45.8	Plus, the feet of international students.
0:51.6	Since March, we responded with devices and access for everyone.
0:55.3	All 35,000 of our educators went through training to better understand how to use tools and technologies.
1:00.8	They signed up to teach kids in summer school.
1:03.5	So we're adapting.
1:05.1	Educators are rising to the occasion, but it's the health and safety of all in the school community that we can't compromise on.
1:14.1	That's Austin Butner.
1:15.3	He's the superintendent of the Los Angeles Unified School District.
1:18.9	It's the second largest school district in the country.
1:21.9	And this week, he announced that students will not return to school in the fall.
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