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Students And Schools Learn COVID’s Impacts Just Keep Coming

Siblings Anna-Cater, Claire and Ty Meyer have been keeping up with their classes at Hobbton High School St. Mary's Catholic School and NC State University from home during the COVID19 pandemic.
Siblings Anna-Cater, Claire and Ty Meyer have been keeping up with their classes at Hobbton High School St. Mary's Catholic School and NC State University from home during the COVID19 pandemic.
Siblings Anna-Cater, Claire and Ty Meyer have been keeping up with their classes at Hobbton High School St. Mary's Catholic School and NC State University from home during the COVID19 pandemic.
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Siblings Anna-Cater, Claire and Ty Meyer have been keeping up with their classes at Hobbton High School St. Mary's Catholic School and NC State University from home during the COVID19 pandemic.

For students and educators around the state, this year’s learning is in a state of flux. Public schools are holding out hope that they will reopen their doors before the school year ends. 

WUNC education reporter Liz Schlemmer gives an update on how the pandemic continues to create school and University-level disruptions around the state.

Meanwhile colleges and universities are looking ahead to the summer and even fall — and realizing the COVID-19 pandemic has reach well beyond the academic year. Host Anita Rao talks with WUNC education reporterLiz Schlemmer about Durham Public Schools’ decision to end its daily meal delivery to students who normally rely on free and reduced school lunches.

Schlemmer also takes listeners to a turkey farm just a few turns off Interstate 40, where internet service providers told a college sophomore it was too costly to lay wire for the broadband that would enable him to do his distance learning. And she gives us updates on other education-related stories she is covering around North Carolina. 

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Anita Rao is the host and creator of "Embodied," a live, weekly radio show and seasonal podcast about sex, relationships & health. She's also the managing editor of WUNC's on-demand content. She has traveled the country recording interviews for the Peabody Award-winning StoryCorps production department, founded and launched a podcast about millennial feminism in the South, and served as the managing editor and regular host of "The State of Things," North Carolina Public Radio's flagship daily, live talk show. Anita was born in a small coal-mining town in Northeast England but spent most of her life growing up in Iowa and has a fond affection for the Midwest.
Jennifer Brookland is a temporary producer for The State of Things.
Liz Schlemmer is WUNC's Education Policy Reporter, a fellowship position supported by the A.J. Fletcher Foundation. She has an M.A. from the UNC Chapel Hill School of Media & Journalism and a B.A. in history and anthropology from Indiana University.