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Ellison Henry – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Background: Communities consist of interconnected sub-systems, such as schools, healthcare organizations, and businesses, each fulfilling specific functions that contribute to the overall well-being of the community. Effective community responses to crises, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, require collaboration across these sectors. However,…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Public Health, Decision Making
Pollard, Kevin; Jacobsen, Linda A. – Appalachian Regional Commission, 2022
The American Community Survey (ACS), a nationwide study collected continuously every year in every county in the United States, is designed to provide communities with reliable and timely demographic, social, economic, and housing data each year. These ACS estimates are not averages of monthly or annual values, but rather an aggregation of data…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Public Health, Community Characteristics
Thurston Domina; Elinor Williams; Cole Smith; Matthew G. Springer; Peyton Powers; Ethan Hutt – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2024
We use data from the applications North Carolina public school districts and charter schools submitted for Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief (ESSER) to investigate the sense that educational leaders made of the pandemic as it unfolded. LEAs understood the pandemic as a multifaceted problem. Nearly all applications addressed four…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Charter Schools, Elementary Secondary Education, Emergency Programs
Hao, Winona – National Association of State Boards of Education, 2020
By April 15, 20 states had ordered child care centers to close in the wake of COVID-19, with exceptions for programs serving the children of essential workers such as health care professionals. Other states modified regulations, with some reducing class sizes to 10 or fewer. Especially for struggling providers, the emergency presents real…
Descriptors: Child Caregivers, Disease Control, Epidemiology, Public Health
Kazouh, Ashley; Hollowell, Adam; Fox, Lauren; Bentley-Edwards, Keisha – Public School Forum of North Carolina, 2020
In what ways and to what extent has the COVID-19 pandemic impacted racial and socioeconomic inequities in educational opportunity and access in North Carolina? This report, commissioned by the Brady Education Foundation and prepared by researchers at the Public School Forum of North Carolina and the Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity at…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, COVID-19, Pandemics, Outcomes of Education
Tinubu Ali, Titilayo; Herrera, Mirel – Southern Education Foundation, 2020
Government officials are taking swift public health actions to slow the rapidly spreading COVID-19 pandemic. By the end of March, statewide school closures affected 55.1 million K-12 public school students across the country. While school closures affect all students, students from underserved communities feel this impact even greater. Data on…
Descriptors: Public Health, Disease Control, Public Schools, Elementary Secondary Education