Thousands of students across the region will return to classes over the next few weeks — some as soon as Monday — beginning a school year that everyone hoped would return to normalcy. But the delta variant has thrown schools another curveball, with educators scrambling to make plans for social distancing, masking, and quarantining. And it comes as schools will need to pour extra resources into assessing student progress after a year of interrupted learning and ensuring kids’ emotional needs are met amid all the upheaval.

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Source: The Philadelphia Inquirer, August 30, 2021.