A New “New Deal” For Education: Top 10 Policy Moves For States In The COVID 2.0 Era

As the coronavirus pandemic continues, it is clear that picking up where we left off and returning to business-as-usual in education will not be possible. In many ways, this is a good thing. Our education system has been deeply unequal and erratic in delivering on the promise of a quality education for all of America’s children. Additionally, even before Covid-19 emerged, increasingly disruptive climate events were regularly interrupting learning for students in areas hit by catastrophic fires, floods, hurricanes, blizzards and other extreme weather.

This pandemic puts a stark light on an emerging truth—education as we know it is over, and we must think of “school” in deeply different ways……………………