(CNN) In the effort to balance health, jobs and quality education, the nation's biggest school districts are divided on how to teach students this semester.
Of the 20 largest school districts:
-- 9 are teaching entirely online.
-- 8 offer fully in-person learning and a choice of fully online learning. (Several of these districts are in Florida, where the governor ordered schools to offer classroom learning.)
-- 2 have a hybrid plan, with some virtual and some classroom instruction.
-- 1 has a combination of plans, depending on the infection rates.
Here's how each of those school districts are teaching, ranked by size:
-- Elementary schools have a hybrid plan.
-- Middle schools and high schools are all online.
-- All instruction is online only.
-- The superintendent said he wants all teachers to get vaccinated.
-- All classes are currently online.
-- Elementary school students are scheduled to return February 1, but the teachers' union is pushing back.
-- Families choose which type of learning they prefer, fully online or fully in-person.
-- The fifth-largest district is expediting its plan to bring students back for in-person learning after a rise in student suicides.
-- Families have a choice between fully online or fully in-person learning.
-- Instruction can be fully in-person or fully online.
-- Families choose between fully online or fully in-person learning.
-- Families have a choice between fully online or fully in-person learning.
Parents have the choice of enrolling their children in the following:
-- Brick and mortar: Students attend in-person classes five days a week on campus
-- Distance learning: Students learn remotely from teachers
-- Palm Beach virtual school: Students participate in a self-paced learning guided by virtual teachers
-- All instruction is online due to coronavirus infection rates in the area.
-- Instruction plans are based on each island's infection rates.
-- As of this month, various islands had in-person learning, at-home learning or a combination.
-- Families choose between fully online or fully in-person learning.
-- Instruction will be entirely online through mid-February.
-- Teaching will be online only until small groups of students return for in-person instruction on March 15.
-- Middle school and high school students have a hybrid plan.
-- Fully in-person learning is available for elementary school students.
-- All instruction is online.
-- Kindergarten through eighth grades are scheduled to start classroom learning February 15.
-- High school students are due to return to classrooms February 22.
-- All instruction is online.
-- The superintendent has said he hopes to bring students from kindergarten through second grade back to classrooms in February.
-- All instruction is online.
-- Employees are tentatively scheduled to start getting vaccinated February 1.
-- "We will reassess our reopening plans in mid-February," school district CEO Monica Goldson said.
-- Families have a choice between fully in-person or fully online learning.