Ten things parents could and should do to help schools safely reopen
Much of what is being done seems to assume these things will not be done at home — and that is the subject of this piece. Written by Mary Filardo, an education advocate and expert on schools facilities, it recommends 10 things parents can be ready and able to do to support the safe reopening of their children’s schools.
Filardo is a leading national authority on school facility planning, management and public private development. She has written extensively on public school facility issues and developed software to support long-range facilities master planning.
Filardo founded and serves as executive director of the 21st Century School Fund, which provides the District of Columbia and other urban communities with leadership, innovative financing solutions, research, and public policy analysis of school facility issues. She also founded the Building Educational Success Together collaborative, a learning community of urban education reform organizations dedicated to building the public will and capacity to improve urban school facilities so they support high-quality education and community health.
By Mary Filardo
Our nation’s public schools are by far one of the most important places to reopen during the covid-19 pandemic. Millions of children have fallen behind in their education as a result of the pandemic. In some cases, as much as seven months of learning has been lost. And, with nearly 50 million children in public schools each day across the country, without schools opening, parents and guardians cannot get CONTINUE READING: Ten things parents should do to help schools safely reopen - The Washington Post
