TABLE 1.

Challenges and Proposed Solutions

Challenge	Proposed Solutions
1. Limited previous experience with community partnership, schools, and school districts	Proceed with caution
	Involve experts with community and governmental experience
	Partner with school districts in pursuit of common goals
2. Polarization/politicization of school stakeholders; academicians work with decision-makers without direct interaction with families, teachers, and staff	Do not offer opinion on whether to reopen schools and instead focus on “if school reopens, how can they ensure success?”
3. Differing viewpoints and organizational structures across school districts makes broad impact of the academic-community partnership difficult	Personalized district approach, especially where there was local control of decision-making
4. Differing institutional structures, organizational hierarchies, decision-making processes, and missions	Bidirectional learning and sharing to develop empathy and understanding
5. Minimal/nonexistent financial support from academic institutions; small grants can be stimulus but do not produce outcomes	Need for large funding sources, such as those supplied by NIH through RADx-UP are needed for the survival of community-academic partnerships
6. Inequalities in child health compounded by remote learning	Communication and connection between public school systems and public health systems

NIH, National Institutes of Health.