The number of public schools experiencing disruptions such as temporary closures and resumption of remote learning fell to 4,473 last week, a 38% decrease from the previous week, when more than 7,000 schools experienced disruptions. The slowdown in school disruptions marks the first decline in temporary closures and shifts to virtual learning since schools reopened after winter break in early January.

At its peak, about 10% of schools were closed last week as infections and exposures — and subsequent quarantines and quarantines — left schools understaffed and pushed up student absenteeism. School closures have dropped for the first time this year: the impact of the epidemic has been reduced, which is a big plus for international students!

View all 610 images Since the start of the calendar year, the vast majority of schools have maintained face-to-face teaching five days a week without major disruption – although individual classes within schools have been disrupted, and individual student learning Also subject to disruption, they must be isolated or quarantined for testing or exposure.

Roughly 95% of schools are currently open to in-person learning, including those in New York City, Los Angeles and Chicago, the three largest U.S. school systems — although the latter closed its doors earlier this month after a week of stalemate Appear. In some cases, city officials and union leaders locked students out of classrooms for five days.

The Biden administration continues to urge schools to stay open at all costs, announcing last week that it would make 10 million COVID-19 tests available to schools each month to help them do so. Last month, the White House also backed a "keep in mind" policy that would allow teachers and children to stay in schools, shorten quarantine and isolation periods, and release federal aid to schools to help prevent staffing shortages.

The president even scolded the news media for focusing on school closures during a press conference in his first year in office, stressing that the vast majority of schools were open.

"It's always on the front page," Biden said of local school closures. ?"It's always in the headlines."

"It's rare that schools close," he said.