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Analysis: With schools opening, Texas enters a critical two weeks of the pandemic

Texas is poised right now as it was in late April: COVID-19 numbers are moving in the right direction, and reopenings — schools this time — are underway. Everyone's hoping for a different result this time.
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Educators to City leaders: School reopening is being rushed

The San Antonio Metropolitan Health District should not recommend in-person schooling until the curve has been more soundly flattened, according to a coalition of education professionals that had been involved in helping Metro Health determine its guidance on reopening schools.
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Remote Schools’ Hidden Cost: Parents Quit Work to Teach, Prompting New Recession Woes

Online school could force more than 4 million working parents out of labor force, researchers say
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San Antonio school districts will welcome thousands back to class – from a distance

Students around Bexar County woke up Monday for their first day of school. Instead of walking down the halls to join teachers and friends in their new classrooms, they’ll be powering on devices and logging in to their first classes online, as most school districts won’t welcome students back on campuses until after Labor Day.
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Can Los Angeles Schools Test 700,000 Students and 75,000 Employees? That’s the Plan

Classes will start remotely. But the nation’s second-largest school district has perhaps the most ambitious plan to test students and employees for the coronavirus.
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Assessment of SARS-CoV-2 Screening Strategies to Permit the Safe Reopening of College Campuses in the United States

This analytic modeling study of a hypothetical cohort of 4990 college-age students without SARS-CoV-2 infection and 10 students with undetected asymptomatic cases of SARS-CoV-2 infection suggested that frequent screening (every 2 days) of all students with a low-sensitivity, high-specificity test might be required to control outbreaks with manageable isolation dormitory utilization at a justifiable cost.
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