Author: Marta W. Aldrich, Chalkbeat Tennessee

One of America’s first states to reopen schools in person, Tennessee serves as ‘experiment’ in COVID safety

This piece was originally published by Chalkbeat, a nonprofit news organization covering public education. Sign up for their newsletters here. Amid a low local infection rate and starting with small clusters of students, Alcoa Middle School last week became one of the nation’s first schools to reopen its campus to students during the pandemic. Within two days, a teacher with…