Political Rewind: Uncertainty For Families, School Kids Looking Ahead to Fall
Tuesday on Political Rewind, uncertainty over the coming school year. Many families are wondering what schooling will look like in just a few months.\n\nUnder a cloud of the pandemic, school systems are asking parents to make the decisions on whether to send their children back to classrooms or continue online learning.\n\n\nPrimary tabs\nView(active tab) Edit\nPolitical Rewind: Uncertainty For Families, School Kids Looking Ahead to Fall\nBy BILL NIGUT & SAM BERMAS-DAWES \u2022 4 HOURS AGO\nPolitical Rewind\nShare\nTweet\nEmail\n\nSAM BERMAS-DAWES / GPB NEWS\nTuesday on Political Rewind, uncertainty over the coming school year. Many families are wondering what schooling will look like in just a few months.\n\nUnder a cloud of the pandemic, school systems are asking parents to make the decisions on whether to send their children back to classrooms or continue online learning.\n\nThe American Academy of Pediatrics \u201cstrongly advocates" for students to be "physically present in school" this fall, but only \u201cif it\u2019s safe.\u201d Some school districts have released their reopening plans, with many including a hybrid plan of students in school and home learning virtually. \n\nListen to the full episode here:\n\nListenListening...50:58\nBut Ty Tagami, education reporter for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, said students in many counties outside of the metro Atlanta area face challenges when it comes to those who learn from home.\n\nSaid Tagami, \u201cA lot of school districts don\u2019t have some of the advantages we have in Metro Atlanta, namely technology, broadband access, so many school districts don\u2019t have it.\u201d\n\nDr. Stephen Owens said budget cuts risk excasterbating the situation.\n\n"The uncertainty of how many students will be in the classroom is compounded by the uncertainty for schools caused by a nearly $1 billion cut in K-12 education," Dr. Owens said. \u201cThis is a crisis that will be with our schools for a number of years."\n\nPanelists:\n\nMargaret Ciccarelli \u2014Professional Association of Georgia Teachers\n\nAmy McCoy Dees \u2014 Chait of Coweta County School Board\n\nDr. Stephen Owens \u2014 Senior Policy Analyst, Georgia Budget and Policy Institute\n\nTy Tagami \u2014 Education Reporter, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution