While schools are closed: educating children during a pandemic costs families thousands of dollars

A private school was never part of Colby Shire's plans when she and her husband started a family: such training is too expensive, writes CNN. So the couple bought a home in a good neighborhood with public schools in York, Pennsylvania, where class sizes were ...

Children study at home: in what cases parents are entitled to paid leave or financial assistance

The Labor Department has released new guidance to clarify when parents are eligible for paid leave or unemployment benefits if they have to take care of their children at home during the new school year, CNBC writes. According to a recent poll by Debt.com, about ...

Millions of parents in the US cannot return to work due to closed schools and kindergartens

The U.S. economy is facing another hurdle to recover from the coronavirus-related financial crisis: the lack of a working childcare system that allows parents to return to work, writes Fox Business. Experts generally agree that the opening of schools in the fall could ...

Wednesday's Storm Closed All New York Schools

New York City faces its fourth storm since early March on March 21-22, with up to 30cm of snow expected to fall in all areas of the city. In this regard, the Mayor of New York, Bill de Blasio, decided to close on Tuesday all schools in the city, ...

Chicago will close schools in the most dangerous and impoverished areas

Five years after the largest in the history of the United States, the mass closure of public schools in one American city of Chicago (Illinois) are preparing to close four more schools in the most crime-prone areas of the city, according to Fox News. School officials are pushing for school closures around Inglewood ...

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