The coronavirus pandemic has highlighted new challenges for parents when it comes to their children’s education. Amid stay-at-home orders, social distancing, and travel restrictions, parents have to make important and potentially tough decisions about their children’s education in the fall.

Local school districts have started unveiling their plans for reopening in the new school year. For most, school is going to look vastly different than it did in March, with reduced class sizes, mandatory face masks, and temperature checks. There is also the looming threat of additional closures in the fall or winter when public health officials anticipate a second wave of the virus to emerge.