ERIC Number: ED606201
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2020-Apr
Pages: 12
Abstractor: ERIC
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School District Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic: Round 2, Districts Are up and Running
Malkus, Nat; Christensen, Cody; West, Lexi
American Enterprise Institute
Since mid-March, millions of schoolchildren have been stuck at home due to school closures brought on by the rapid spread of COVID-19. School districts' initial responses were captured by the first wave of the American Enterprise Institute's (AEI) COVID-19 Education Response Longitudinal Survey (C-ERLS), a nationally representative survey of public school districts. This report, which is the second in the "School District Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic" series, provides an update to the previous report. Using the most updated C-ERLS data, this report describes how educational services changed over the span of just 11 days. It covers changes that occurred in public school districts between March 27 and April 7, 2020. Findings show: (1) More than nine in 10 schools were in districts providing meal services to students, up from 82 percent of schools that offered meals by late March; (2) In the span of 11 days, there was a dramatic increase in the percentage of schools with remote instructional programs in place, at 71 percent by April 7, up from 43 percent on March 27; and (3) Over half of schools are in districts encouraging one-on-one contacts with students, through either synchronous learning platforms or individual outreach via emails and phone calls. [For "School District Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic: Round 1, Districts' Initial Responses," see ED606201.]
Descriptors: School Districts, School Closing, Access to Education, Distance Education, Public Schools, Lunch Programs, Breakfast Programs, Access to Computers, Educational Technology, Online Courses, Instructional Materials, Web Based Instruction, Asynchronous Communication, Synchronous Communication, Teacher Student Relationship, Computer Mediated Communication, Planning, Elementary Secondary Education, Internet, Food Service, COVID-19, Pandemics
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Publication Type: Reports - Research
Education Level: Elementary Secondary Education
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Language: English
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Authoring Institution: American Enterprise Institute (AEI)
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