Nic Querolo

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A worried high school student looking at his test paper before starting during an exam.

Teacher absences are worse now than during the pandemic. It’s costing schools $4 billion a year and some students ‘will never get back on track’

By Bloomberg and Nic Querolo

Worried mixed race businesswoman at work

The accountant shortage is so real that dozens of cities have no credit score because they didn’t file financial paperwork in time

By Nic Querolo and Bloomberg

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis vows to keep restaurants open during COVID-19 at a news conference on December 15, 2020, at Okeechobee Steakhouse in West Palm Beach, Florida. DeSantis and his education policies were the target of a school walkout at Plantation High School in the Broward County district. (Michael Laughlin/South Florida Sun Sentinel/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)

Disney’s worst nightmare in Florida comes true as Gov. Ron DeSantis seizes control of special district

By Nic Querolo and Felipe Marques

JPMOrgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon

Kentucky wants to divest from Citigroup and JPMorgan Chase because it thinks they’re too hostile to fossil fuels—despite reports they’re top industry financiers

By Nic Querolo and Bloomberg

Pro-choice demonstrators

With Roe v. Wade in flux, blue states ramp up efforts to support abortion access

By Ella Ceron, Nic Querolo, and others

Schools keep in-person learning during COVID-19

School districts are asking parents to be substitute teachers as Omicron hits classroom staffing

By Nic Querolo and Bloomberg

Garden Grove, CA – August 16: Masked students wait to go to their classroom during the first day of class at Stanford Elementary School in Garden Grove, CA on Monday, August 16, 2021. Students and teacher were required to wear masks in the classroom but not outside. (Photo by Paul Bersebach, Orange County Register/SCNG)

The Delta variant is throwing a wrench in back-to-school plans across the U.S.

By Nic Querolo and Bloomberg

Respiratory therapist Andrew Hoyt cares for a COVID-19 patient in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) at Sharp Chula Vista Medical Center, with the word ‘Merry’ posted on the window a few days before Christmas, on December 21, 2020 in Chula Vista, California. According to state figures, Southern California currently has 0% of its ICU (Intensive Care Unit) bed capacity remaining amid a spike in COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations.

Nearly twice as many Americans are hospitalized right now with COVID-19 than in spring

By Nic Querolo, John Tozzi, and others