Opening Schools: Mission Impossible
The decision about whether to reopen schools while the COVID-19 pandemic continues to rage is complicated by logistics, health questions and politics. It's particularly difficult in districts where there is a wide diversity of language, and where many families are enduring poverty.
School superintendents and administrators are caught between wanting to educate - and often feed - their student body and keeping kids safe. In Indiana, their hands have been forced by state legislators, who say they might withhold funding unless schools reopen.
Today on The Indicator, we speak to one Indiana school superintendent, to see how she plans to handle back-to-school in the midst of a health crisis.
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