Due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak, institutions in the United States have had to react in order to try to contain the virus. As of **************, *** schools or school districts in the U.S. have closed in response to COVID-19. ** schools or school districts are scheduled to close.

As of June 14, 2021, ** states in the United States had no school closure order in effect due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Meanwhile, ** states had ordered schools open.

School closure during COVID-19

The debate on whether to close schools during the COVID-19 pandemic has been highly contentious in the United States. As experts are unsure about the long-term effects of COVID-19 on individuals, the call to close schools has been rapidly growing. The evidence of children being asymptomatic spreaders helps support the case to close schools to decrease the risk of spreading to their parents and grandparents. Those in favor of closing schools argue that closing schools hinders children’s emotional, mental, and educational development. However, a majority of voters agree that schools should wait to reopen until all teachers are vaccinated.

Parents' worry

Regardless of income level or working status, most parents in the United States share the same fears and concerns about their children’s education and safety during COVID-19. A majority of parents were concerned about their children falling behind as a result of online schooling, as an online school does not provide the same academic and social benefits as an in-person school.

Every day, schools, child care centres and licensed home child care agencies report to the Ministry of Education on children, students and staff that have positive cases of COVID-19.

If there is a discrepancy between numbers reported here and those reported publicly by a Public Health Unit, please consider the number reported by the Public Health Unit to be the most up-to-date.

Schools and school boards report when a school is closed to the Ministry of Education. Data is current as of 2:00 pm the previous day.

This dataset is subject to change.

Data is only updated on weekdays excluding provincial holidays

Effective June 15, 2022, board and school staff will not be expected to report student/staff absences and closures in the Absence Reporting Tool. The ministry will no longer report absence rates or school/child care closures on Ontario.ca for the remainder of the school year.

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Summary of school closures

This is a summary of school closures in Ontario.

Data includes:

• Number of schools closed
• Total number of schools
• Percentage of schools closed

School Absenteeism

This report provides a summary of schools and school boards that have reported staff and student absences.

Data includes:

• School board
• School
• City or Town
• Percentage of staff and students who are absent

Summary of cases in schools

This report provides a summary of COVID-19 activity in publicly-funded Ontario schools.

Data includes:

• School-related cases (total)
• School-related student cases
• School-related staff cases
• Current number of schools with a reported case
• Current number of schools closed

Note: In some instances the type of cases are not identified due to privacy considerations.

Schools with active COVID-19 cases

This report lists schools and school boards that have active cases of COVID-19.

Data includes :

• School Board
• School
• Municipality
• Confirmed Student Cases
• Confirmed Staff Cases
• Total Confirmed Cases

Cases in school board partners

This report lists confirmed active cases of COVID-19 for other school board partners (e.g. bus drivers, authorized health professionals etc.) and will group boards if there is a case that overlaps.

Data includes :

• School Board(s)
• School Municipality
• Confirmed cases – other school board partners

Summary of targeted testing conducted in schools

This data includes all tests that have been reported to the Ministry of Education since February 1, 2021. School boards and other testing partners will report to the Ministry every Wednesday based on data from the previous seven days.

Data includes : * School boards or regions * Number of schools invited to participate in the last seven days * Total number of tests conducted in the last seven days * Cumulative number of tests conducted * Number of new cases identified in the last seven days * Cumulative number of cases identified

Summary of asymptomatic testing at conducted in pharmacies:

This is a summary of COVID-19 rapid antigen testing conducted at participating pharmacies in Ontario since March 27, 2021.

• Total number of tests conducted in the last seven days
• Cumulative number of tests conducted
• Number of new cases identified in the last seven days
• Cumulative number of cases identified

A substantial fraction of k-12 schools in the United States closed their in-person operations during the COVID-19 pandemic. These closures may have altered the labor supply decisions of parents of affected children due to a need to be at home with children during the school day. In this paper, we examine the impact of school closures on parental labor market outcomes. We test whether COVID-19 school closures have a disproportionate impact on parents of school-age children (ages 5-17 years old). Our results show that both women’s and men’s work lives were affected by school closures, with both groups seeing a reduction in work hours and the likelihood of working full-time but only women being less likely to work at all. We also find that closures had a corresponding negative effect on the earnings of parents of school-aged children. These effects are concentrated among parents without a college degree and parents working in occupations that do not lend themselves to telework, suggesting that such individuals had a more difficult time adjusting their work lives to school closures.

Unplanned public K-12 school district and individual school closures due to COVID-19 in the United States from February 18–June 30, 2020.

As of June 23, 2020, the number of public lower secondary schools in Japan that closed temporarily due to the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) amounted to *****. Close to 100 percent of the surveyed public schools in Japan experienced a temporary closure after April 1. Following the rapid growth of the number of COVID-19 cases, the government declared a countrywide state of emergency on April 16 and requested businesses, schools, and others to shut down. The state was lifted completely on May 25.

The number of children, youth and adults not attending schools or universities because of COVID-19 is soaring. Governments all around the world have closed educational institutions in an attempt to contain the global pandemic.

According to UNESCO monitoring, over 100 countries have implemented nationwide closures, impacting over half of world’s student population. Several other countries have implemented localized school closures and, should these closures become nationwide, millions of additional learners will experience education disruption.

Unplanned public K-12 school district and individual school closures due to COVID-19 in the United States from August 1, 2020–June 30, 2022.

This article discusses the question of data, and our perspective on the importance of public, accessible, and contemporaneous data in the face of public crisis. Then, we present data on the extent of school closures, both globally and within the United States. We describe the available data on the degree of these closures, which will provide a set of resources for studying longer-term consequences as they emerge. We also highlight what we know about the demographic patterns of school closures. We then discuss the emerging estimates of the short-term impacts of school closures. A central finding throughout our discussion is that school closures during the pandemic tended to increase inequality, both within and across countries. We also emphasize that fully understanding the long-run impact of COVID-related school closures on students will take time and will surely be influenced by events and policies in the next few years.

This survey by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) and the World Bank seeks to collect information on national education responses to school closures related to the COVID-19 pandemic. The questionnaire is designed for Ministry of Education officials at central or decentralized level in charge of school education. The questionnaire does not cover higher education or technical and vocational education and training. Analysis of results will allow for policy learning across the diversity of country settings in order to better inform local/national responses and prepare for the reopening of schools. The survey will be run on a regular basis to ensure that the latest impact and responses are captured. In light of the current education crisis, the COVID-19 education response coordinated by UNESCO with our partners is deemed urgent. A first wave of data collection started in May and lasted until mid-June 2020. A second wave of data collection will start at the beginning of July. A link to the online survey questionnaire, as well as other formats, will be available shortly.

COVID-19-associated school closures, United States, February 18–June 30, 2020

  Description

Unplanned public K-12 school district and individual school closures due to COVID-19 in the United States from February 18–June 30, 2020.

  Dataset Details

Publisher: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Last Modified: 2022-01-12 Contact: Nicole Zviedrite (jmu6@cdc.gov)

  Source

Original data can be found at: https://data.cdc.gov/d/wgvr-7mvz

  Usage… See the full description on the dataset page: https://huggingface.co/datasets/HHS-Official/covid-19-associated-school-closures-united-states.

As of June 23, 2020, around ** percent of public schools for special needs education had to close temporarily for ** to ** days due to the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Japan. Close to 100 percent of the surveyed public schools in the country experienced a temporary closure after April 1. Following the rapid growth of the number of COVID-19 cases, the government declared a countrywide state of emergency on April 16 and requested businesses, schools, and others to shut down. The state was lifted completely on May 25.

Data on distance learning and supplemental feeding programs were collected from a stratified sample of 600 school districts. School districts were divided into quartiles based on the percentage of students eligible for free/reduced-price lunch, an indicator of family economic status, as reported by the National Center for Education Statistics (https://nces.ed.gov/ccd/). A simple random sample was taken in each stratum, and sample size per stratum was calculated using 95% confidence interval of 50% ± 10%. Data on the availability and method of delivery of both distance learning and supplemental feeding programs were collected from publicly available announcements on school district websites and their official social media pages (Facebook, Twitter). Google searches were performed for news resources when information was not available from online district sources.

Context

World Bank Education COVID-19 School Closures

https://www.worldbank.org/en/data/interactive/2020/03/24/world-bank-education-and-covid-19

Content

Number of countries by information status as of 15/03/2021 09:51:25 Number of Students in countries with fully closed schools Number of Students in countries with partially closed schools

https://www.worldbank.org/en/data/interactive/2020/03/24/world-bank-education-and-covid-19

Acknowledgements

https://www.worldbank.org/en/data/interactive/2020/03/24/world-bank-education-and-covid-19

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Inspiration

School closures during the Covid-19 Pandemic.

This data table covers key socio-demographic and health indicators at the health region levels of geography to better understand the different ways that remote learning approaches and temporarily closed schools have affected children and youth during the COVID-19 pandemic.

In England (UK), at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic the public were required to reduce their physical contacts to slow the spread of COVID-19. We investigated the factors associated with children having: 1) close contact with family members from outside their household (‘non-adherent behaviour’); and 2) low well-being (Revised Child Anxiety and Depression Scale). We conducted an online cross-sectional survey, completed at any location of the participant’s choice between 8 and 11 June 2020 in parents (n = 2,010) who were aged eighteen years or over and had a school-aged child (4–18 years old). Parents reported that 15% (n = 309) of children had non-adherent contact and that 26% (n = 519) had low well-being. We used a series of binary logistic regressions to investigate associations between outcomes and child and parent characteristics. Children had higher odds of having non-household contact when they had special educational needs [adjusted odds ratio, 2.19 (95% CI, 1.47 to 3.27)], lower well-being [2.65 (95% CI, 2.03 to 3.46)], were vulnerable to COVID-19 [2.17 (95% CI, 1.45 to 3.25)], lived with someone who was over 70 years old [2.56 (95% CI, 1.55 to 4.24)] and their parent had low well-being [1.94 (95% CI, 1.45 to 2.58)]. Children had higher odds of lower well-being when they had special educational needs [4.13 (95% CI, 2.90 to 5.87)], were vulnerable to COVID-19 [3.06 (95% CI, 2.15 to 4.36)], lived with someone else who was vulnerable to COVID-19 [2.08 (95% CI, 1.64 to 2.64)], or lived with someone who was over 70 years old [2.41 (95% CI, 1.51 to 3.83)]. Many children came into contact with non-household family members, mainly for childcare. Factors relating to COVID-19, children’s well-being and education were also important. If school closures are needed in future, addressing these issues may help reduce contact.

This dataset tracks the updates made on the dataset "COVID-19-related School Closures: USA, 2020-2022" as a repository for previous versions of the data and metadata.

As of March 2021, nearly 682 million students all across the globe lived in countries with closed schools due to the outbreak of the coronavirus (COVID-19). Furthermore, schools were partially open for around 92 millions students worldwide. In 57 countries schools were closed during that same, while in 95 countries schools remained open with limitations.

According to a survey from 2021, 76 percent of the respondents in Singapore were accepting of the school closures in order to prevent COVID-19 transmissions. In comparison, 38 percent of the respondents in South Korea accepted the school closures due to COVID-19.