All States Close but Red Districts Reopen: The Politics of In-Person Schooling during the COVID-19 Pandemic. EdWorkingPaper No. 21-355

Autor/inn/en	Grossmann, Matt; Reckhow, Sarah; Strunk, Katharine; Turner, Meg
Institution	Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University
Titel	All States Close but Red Districts Reopen: The Politics of In-Person Schooling during the COVID-19 Pandemic. EdWorkingPaper No. 21-355
Quelle	(2021), (27 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	COVID-19; Pandemics; School Closing; School Districts; Politics of Education; School Schedules; Public Education; Public Health; State Policy; Educational Policy; Public Opinion; Distance Education; State Officials; Unions; Collective Bargaining; Michigan + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? School closings; Schule; Schließung; Schließung (von Schulen); School district; Schulbezirk; Educational policy; Bildungspolitik; Schulzeiteinteilung; Öffentliche Erziehung; Gesundheitswesen; Politics of education; Öffentliche Meinung; Distance study; Distance learning; Fernunterricht; Member of the government; Regierungsmitglied; Tarifverhandlung
Abstract	The COVID-19 pandemic created enormous challenges for public education. We assess the role of political factors and public health in state and local education decisions, especially the continuation of learning during COVID-19. Using an original dataset of state education policies since the start of the pandemic, we find that governors took the lead on ordering school closures in Spring 2020 but left decisions to districts in the Fall, regardless of partisanship. Partisanship played a much stronger role in local decisions than state decisions. We analyze local district reopening plans and public opinion on reopening in the politically competitive state of Michigan. Partisanship was much more associated with district reopening plans than COVID-19 rates. Republicans in the Michigan public were also far more favorable than were Democrats toward in-person learning. States' decisions to leave reopening plans to their districts opened the way for students' experiences to be shaped by their area's partisanship. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2024/1/01