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USA TODAY SPECIAL EDITION
EDUCATION
Lessons Learned The pandemic presents unexpected challenges and benefits for K-12 education By Jennifer Bradley Franklin
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AUREN LENEIS’ DAUGHTER, A first-grader in
suburban Orlando, Fla., came home crying last fall after discovering that her beloved teacher was being abruptly transferred to another school. “She was sad. She didn’t want her teacher to leave and didn’t understand why,” Leneis
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