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    The first waves of returning college students are arriving at campuses, including North Carolina State University in Raleigh, N.C. At N.C. State, the return of students was staggered over 10 days, and students were greeted Friday by socially distant volunteers donning masks and face shields. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome)
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    Opinion: Virus risk will rise if students return to dorms, dining and...
    Hundreds of parents, students and community members rally to call on Superintendent Chris Ragsdale and the Cobb school board to offer in-person classes alongside virtual learning outside Cobb County Civic Center in Marietta on Saturday, August 1, 2020. The protesters gathered Saturday at the Cobb County Civic Center to call on Superintendent Chris Ragsdale and the Cobb school board to offer in-person classes alongside virtual learning to students returning to the classroom Aug. 17. (Hyosub Shin / Hyosub.Shin@ajc.com)
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    Are we ready to reopen schools in Georgia as virus surges?
    Across the country, including here in Georgia, families are rallying to encourage schools to reopen for face-to-face classes, but surges in infections are making that a challenge to do safely.
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    Opinion: No right answer on reopening schools
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    The first waves of returning college students are arriving at campuses, including North Carolina State University in Raleigh, N.C. At N.C. State, the return of students was staggered over 10 days, and students were greeted Friday by socially distant volunteers donning masks and face shields. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome)
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    Opinion: Virus risk will rise if students return to dorms, dining and...
    Hundreds of parents, students and community members rally to call on Superintendent Chris Ragsdale and the Cobb school board to offer in-person classes alongside virtual learning outside Cobb County Civic Center in Marietta on Saturday, August 1, 2020. The protesters gathered Saturday at the Cobb County Civic Center to call on Superintendent Chris Ragsdale and the Cobb school board to offer in-person classes alongside virtual learning to students returning to the classroom Aug. 17. (Hyosub Shin / Hyosub.Shin@ajc.com)
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    Are we ready to reopen schools in Georgia as virus surges?
    Across the country, including here in Georgia, families are rallying to encourage schools to reopen for face-to-face classes, but surges in infections are making that a challenge to do safely.
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    Opinion: No right answer on reopening schools
    Education Secretary Betsy DeVos says changes to the law governing how schools and colleges respond to complaints of sexual misconduct assure due process to those who are accused. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
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    Advocates: Changes to Title IX reverse progress made against sexual in...
    A former college president notes that about half of U.S. campuses plan to open with face-to-face instruction. Harris Pastides, president emeritus of the University of South Carolina says: "If one considers that there are about 20 million college students in the United States, we are about to see a huge wave of relocation." (AP Photo/Joan Mateu)
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    Opinion: As colleges reopen, millions of students will be on the move....
    A Georgia Tech aerospace engineer who created a successful online engineering lab says remote lab experiences can likely be replicated in other areas of engineering, physics, chemistry, and biology. (Georgia Tech illustration)
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    Georgia Tech professor: You can teach engineering lab online
    A 2020 UGA grad says his graduating class may face the worst job market since the Great Depression.
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    New college grad: We need help in COVID-decimated job market
    Protesters hold up signs asking for a mask policy in Oconee County schools during a "School Safety First Rally" at the Oconee County Board of Education in Watkinsville, Ga., on Wednesday, July 15, 2020. Parents and teachers expressed their concerns about teachers and students not having to be tested for COVID-19 before returning to school and there being no mandatory mask policy. Parents have also formed a Facebook group Safety First – Reopening Schools and are circulating a petition demanding that a group of teachers and parents be formed to be part creating the guideline for the reopening process. (Joshua L. Jones/Athens Banner-Herald via AP)
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    Opinion: Oconee’s plan to reopen schools next week jeopardizes staff...
    Georgia Tech advertised for a student employee to drive dorm residents who tested positive for COVID-19 to off-campus quarantine sites. The reaction caused the school to pull the job ad.
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    Georgia Tech sought student to pack up, drive peers with COVID to...
    Throughout the country, school districts sent out Wi-Fi-enabled school buses to help students without reliable home internet attend virtual classes. Due to lack of access, national data suggest only 60% of low-income students logged in regularly to their online classes. For their more affluent peers, the number was close to 90%. (AP Photo/Meg Kinnard)
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    Opinion: Internet access is a right for every student
    Parents who believe their kids returning to campus this fall will have a traditional college experience may be disappointed; students will likely be taking some of their classes online.
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    Back to campus but still online?
    Georgia may push all schools to delay the start of school until September.
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    Georgia may push statewide start date of Sept. 8 for schools
    Georgia's popular beach getaways, shown here last week, have become a major hotspot for the coronavirus disease, according to an Atlanta Journal-Constitution analysis of state health data. People continue to flock to beaches, many without masks. Ryon Horne/RHORNE@AJC.COM
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    Opinion: No district chose distance learning. State pandemic response...
    Protesters hold up signs asking for a safety-first policy at a "School Safety First Rally" at the Oconee County Board of Education in Watkinsville, Ga., last week. (Joshua L. Jones/Athens Banner-Herald via AP)
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    Opinion: Don’t ask teachers to be martyrs
    Gov. Brian Kemp and Superintendent Richard Woods have been on the same page during the coronavirus pandemic, agreeing that local districts ought to make their own calls on appropriate responses. BOB ANDRES / BANDRES@AJC.COM
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    School chief: We support districts in their reopening choices
    Sanitized books wait to be reshelved in Northbrook Middle School in Suwanee, Georgia, earlier this month. Gwinnett County Public Schools, the state’s largest system, had planned to reopen its buildings to students on Aug. 12 but now is going fully digital to start off. REBECCA WRIGHT FOR THE ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION
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    Is it safe to sound the first bell?
    200716-Suwanee-J. Alvin Wilbanks, superintendent of Gwinnett County Public Schools, listens to public comment during a school board meeting Thursday evening July16, 2020. Ben Gray for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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    Gwinnett reverses course: Will open with all digital classes
    A chain-link fence locks the gate at a closed schooled. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel, File)
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    Atlanta educator: It’s safe. Open school buildings.
    Georgia 2017 Teacher of the Year Casey Bethel says: "Start planning out how you will connect with each student. Remember, 'no one cares how much you know until they know how much you care.' Get hold of your roster early and start calling each home to introduce yourself. Assign 3 or 4 different students each day to stick around after the Zoom call just to chat. "
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    Former Teacher of the Year: We can do this
    A protester holds up a sign for a mask mandate in schools during the "School Safety First Rally" at the Oconee County Board of Education in Watkinsville, Ga., this week
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    Gwinnett teacher: Why are leaders denying science and math of COVID-19?
    Many teachers are asking to have classes remain online for their safety and that of children
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    Teachers group: Delay in-person start of school until at least...
    Amid concerns of the spread of COVID-19, schools and teachers are focused on cleaning and sanitizing classrooms.
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    National Academies: Reopen schools with cautions
    This popular meme has been making the rounds on social media in the wake of the call for schools to reopen so Americans can go back to work.
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    Opinion: We are guilting teachers into returning to dangerous situations
    A Georgia Tech computer scientist who directs Georgia Tech’s online master of science in computer science program says: ‘All of our evidence indicates that it is possible to create an online learning experience as good as the in-person experience.’
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    Georgia Tech scientist: Life’s not going to snap back to normal so...
    A Georgia Tech student says: ‘The University System of Georgia, which indirectly is run by the governor Brian Kemp, is unwilling to admit that the state of Georgia has failed. In that failure, they’re putting at risk the lives of their students and their world-class professors. I do not want to be used as a pawn in their game, but as a student I am subject to the moves they make.’
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    Georgia Tech senior: ‘I am afraid to return to campus’
    Students wearing face masks sit at their desks keeping social distance, ahead of a selectivity exam on Tuesday, July 7, 2020 in Sabadell, outside Barcelona, Spain.
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    Forsyth teen to superintendent: Please show leadership and mandate masks
    Desks are seen socially distanced in Northbrook Middle School in Suwanee, Georgia, on Wednesday, July 8, 2020. With about a month left before Georgia schools begin the new school year, districts are annoucing plans for how that new year will look. Northbrook Middle School is amping up their cleaning and disinfecting practices, creating social distancing protocols and posting signage to help reduce the risk of students spreading Covid-19.
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    OPINION: Teachers on front lines in school reopenings
    The words "Defund the Police" were added by protesters alongside the words "Black Lives Matter" near the White House in Washington.
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    Opinion: College degrees won’t lessen police racism unless campuses...
    State’s top academics say: ‘The COVID-19 risks vary in different parts of the state, and they change over time. Athens is not Atlanta, and Savannah is not Valdosta. What makes sense for the University of Georgia might not work for Georgia State, or Albany State, or Georgia Southern.’
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    State’s top professors: Public campuses need freedom to chart own...
    Baldwin Street Steps during class change facing toward Park Hall and Brooks Hall on the University of Georgia campus.
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    UGA student: Too many of my peers couldn’t care less if grandma dies...
    There are calls to change the names of dorms and buildings at UGA named for slave owners, including LeConte Hall.
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    How many college buildings in Georgia carry names of racists and slave...
    A Georgia Tech doctoral studente says: “International students at Georgia Tech are my classmates, research collaborators, and friends; their presence is a vital part of Georgia Tech’s vibrant culture and academic prestige.:
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    Opinion: Deporting international students if classes go online hurts...
    Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, center left, speaks at a discussion that included President Donald Trump, right, about safely reopening America's schools in the face of the coronavirus pandemic, at the White House in Washington, today. In a daylong series of conference calls and public events, the president, DeVos and other senior officials opened a concerted campaign to lean on governors, mayors and others to resume in-person classes.
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    Donald Trump to schools: You must open for business
    The University System of Georgia will npw require face masks on all its public campuses.
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    Major update: Students, faculty and staff at Georgia public colleges...
    A petition calling for the University of Georgia to rename the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication now has nearly 9,000 signatures.
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    Opinion: ‘We are Grady’ But who was Henry Grady?
    The Educators for Black Lives March  was held on June 26, the last day of the 2020 legislative session.
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    Opinion: It’s one thing to discuss white privilege; it’s another to it...
    A parent leader in the Fulton Schools says: ‘From the pandemic to protests around police brutality and our young people actively marching for their voices to be heard -- the last three months of 2020 have been gut-wrenching for all.’
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    Opinion: In reopening schools, students and their safety must be focus
    Using a classroom that normally holds 305 students, Tech researechers found that, if students had to be seated at least six feet apart, the room would only hold 78 students – less than people would assume. After restricting seats near high activity areas, just 60 students can fit in this room – a mere 20% of the room’s original capacity.
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    OPINION | Georgia Tech researchers: Colleges too optimistic about...
    On Monday, an email will ask Gwinnett parents to select one of  two options for their kids, in-person or online instruction. In a survey of parents, 43% of parents preferred a return to in-person instruction; 34% wanted 100% digital learning; and 23% liked an option that combines in-person instruction with digital learning, according to Gwinnett Schools.
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    Gwinnett will offer in-person and online options
    A parent who graduated Cobb Schools recalls how little there was for students of colors, including few black teachers and no black writers on reading lists. She believes Cobb has to start proving with actions that black students matter.
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    A 1999 graduate: Cobb must do better for my child than it did for me
    Many places waive SAT and ACT requirements for 2021. Not Georgia.
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    Many places waive SAT and ACT requirements for 2021. Not Georgia.
    Baldwin Street Steps during class change facing toward Park Hall and Brooks Hall on the University of Georgia campus.
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    UGA to students: ‘We look forward to seeing you on campus in a few...
    A mother of three who is an infectious disease doctor says: ‘If students and teachers alike wear a mask at all times, the risk of passing or acquiring coronavirus is diminished by at least 95%.’
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    Opinion: Schools can open safely if students wear masks and socially...
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    House committee approves bill slashing number of state tests
    A civil rights leader says that, while we may see frustration, even anger on faces of young protesters, “We shouldn’t confuse demonstrations, frustration, or anger with hopelessness. People feeling hopeless lie down and give up. Those with hope stand up, speak up, and protest. They feel a sense of urgency and they see that things can change, and they show their frustration and anger and call for that change.”
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    Opinion: Protests by young people are sign of hope for America
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    Georgia eliminates one-size-fits-all assessment of teacher candidates
    Georgia will submit a waiver to the U.S. Department of Education for the suspension of the 2020-21 Georgia Milestones assessment and CCRPI school and district rating.
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    Georgia wants to halt Milestones testing next year
    A 2020 Grady High graduate says: “We ought to remove Henry Grady’s name from our high school and place it in its proper historical context, one of remembrance but not reverence.”
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    Opinion: Henry Grady’s name doesn’t belong on my high school
    Georgia Tech releases reopening plan
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    Georgia Tech releases reopening plan: Classes end by Thanksgiving but...
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    Across Atlanta private schools, black students and grads share their...
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