This framework primarily focuses on the immediate challenges of reopening schools, but it also discusses the need to integrate long-term social and emotional supports that tend to the needs of the whole child.

This website, focused on the science of learning and development, links to dozens of school reopening plans and resources and organizes them by their intended audiences, including students, families, and educators.

This reopening guidance for schools, authored by Dr. David Kirkland, contains a series of thought-provoking statements on how districts and teachers can be culturally responsive and equity-based in the era of COVID-19 and beyond.

This guidance, described as a living document, recommends that districts work in partnership with local unions and to avoid reopening schools physically until there are 14 days of declining cases.

Oregon's comprehensive guidance to school reopening is among the most thorough and evidence-based, and it emphasizes the importance of anti-racist practice, performance assessments, and community schooling.

This LPI brief from May 2020 offers an international comparison of how five different countries are approaching the challenge of reopening schools in keeping with health and safety guidelines.

This short, 11-page PDF provides a series of graphics to support the thinking of systems leaders and state policymakers as they redesign school schedules and other structures to meet the challenges of the pandemic.

This website developed by the state of Colorado provides an interactive map of completed broadband programs as well as example requests that local governments can submit for additional broadband assistance.

This website describes the establishment of a separate nonprofit corporation to close the digital divide in California, which draws upon funding from major telecommunications companies.

This report, written in partnership with Boston Consulting Group, analyzes the digital divide for America's k-12 public school students and teachers and provides strategies for moving forward to close the digital divide.

This blog by LPI Senior Researcher and Policy Analyst Michael Griffith from April 2020 discusses the budget crises that states will face and recommends additional federal funding and flexibility in how funds are spent.

The federal E-Rate program has expanded broadband access in rural communities across the country and could be used as an avenue for additional federal funding.

This nonprofit organization provides a growing number of communities in the greater Cleveland area with $18/month internet access--a potential model for philanthropic partnerships in other states.

This report identifies and explores promising practices for connecting unserved communities through examples in nine states.

This website organizes all of the digital resources and strategic planning for the state of Nebraska on how it plans to close the digital divide.

The website for Minnesota's Office of Broadband Development includes maps, data, and broadband speed tests as well as a grant program to increase access to educational opportunity across the state.

This LPI brief from May 2020 offers an international comparison of how five different countries are encouraging sick students and those exposed to COVID-19 to remain at home and participate in remote learning.

This interactive article allows readers to visualize the extent of the digital divide in their area and provides cost estimates for ensuring broadband access for all students at home.

This website details the three components of Tennessee's Broadband Accessibility Act, including a Rural Task Force to evaluate the use of new grants to improve broadband access.

The West Virginia Broadband Enhancement Council website provides policies, plans, and other resources for extending broadband access to underserved areas of West Virginia.

This website for the Wisconsin Broadband Office includes emergency resources for families and an internet discount finder.

This legislation redefined attendance in this coming school year to include time equivalents for work completed--instead of requiring students to remain seated for hours in front of a screen.

This playbook provides a detailed, three-tiered approach to addressing a lack of student attendance whether classes are held in person or online.

This two-page brief highlights how blended learning and a student-centered model have improved achievement at Lindsay Unified School District in California.