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Full map including municipalities. State, territorial, tribal, and local governments responded to the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States with various declarations of emergency, closure of schools and public meeting places, lockdowns, and other restrictions intended to slow the progression of the virus.
The government of Texas's initial response to the COVID-19 pandemic in the state consisted of a decentralized system that was mostly reliant on local policies. As the pandemic progressed in Texas and throughout the rest of the country, the Texas government closed down several businesses and parks, and it eventually imposed a statewide stay-at-home order in late May.
10 March: One in five students worldwide was "staying away from school due to the COVID-19 crisis" while another one in four was barred from higher education institutions, according to UNESCO. [ 84 ] 13–16 March: National governments in 49 countries announced or implemented school closures on 13 March, including 39 countries which closed ...
The potential long-term learning deficit in student achievement from the four-day school week is, our findings suggest, not trivial.” — Christopher Doss, Andrea Phillips and Rebecca Kilburn ...
According to a study conducted by Active Minds, a nonprofit group dedicated to improving the mental health of students, in April 2020, 20% of college students said their mental health significantly worsened under COVID-19. Among both high school and college students, 38% said that they had trouble focusing and that doing work was stressful. [45]
What did Biden's student debt cancellation plans promise? One of the plans would have forgiven up to $20,000 of unpaid interest for more than 20 million borrowers, the White House said in April .
By the end of March 2020, UNESCO estimated that over 89% of the world's student population was out of school or university due to closures aimed at mitigating the spread of COVID-19. [25] According to UNICEF, at the peak of the pandemic, 188 countries imposed countrywide school closures, affecting more than 1.6 billion children and youth.
In 2021, East High received the School of Excellence award from the American College Application Campaign, which is “a national effort to increase the number of first-generation college students ...