Teachers Union Urges Parents To Boycott School Reopening By Jaisal Noor, The Real News. October 20, 2020 Teachers Union Urges Parents To Boycott School Reopening2020-10-202020-10-20https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/10/scool-e1603238224250.jpg200px200px Above photo: A student receives a temperature check before leaving the car to enter STAR Eco Station Tutoring & Enrichment Center on September 2, 2020 in Culver City, California. Mario Tama/Getty Images. School officials and teachers have very different views on […]
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Daily Beast: The White House put the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention under immense pressure to produce more evidence that suited the Trump administration’s agenda to send kids and teachers back to school in person before the election despite the raging coronavirus pandemic, The New York Times reports. 📺 NEW VIDEO MeidasTouch and @BetteMidler and proud to present our very special version of ‘You’re Moving Out […]
President Donald Trump announced Monday that his administration would hand out 100 million coronavirus tests to states across the country, free of charge, for community distribution but stressed state leaders should use the additional resources to reopen schools. The administration plans to ship the Abbott BinaxNOW point of care tests in batches and will distribute them on a per capita basis, according to officials working with […]
Just two weeks after going remote because of a COVID-19 spike, the University of Wisconsin Madison is resuming in-person activities, despite what Gov. Tony Evers described as a “near-exponential” increase in coronavirus cases in the state. UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank announced Wednesday that the 45,000-student school would return to classroom instruction and reopen some dining, recreation and library functions. The next day, Wisconsin reported the highest […]
Amidst a national debate on how to safely reopen schools during the coronavirus pandemic, several colleges and universities took the plunge, inviting students back to dorms and classrooms with strict health and social distancing guidelines. More than a third of the nation’s 5,000 higher education campuses have reopened, with students from out of state ordered to quarantine, mask mandated and routine self-checks for symptoms instituted across […]
New Delhi (Sputnik): The Delhi Metro – the city’s metropolitan transport services – will be opened to passengers on 7 September after over five months of suspension during the national lockdown. New Delhi has decided to relax the lockdown guidelines for the fourth time from 1 September. As the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation was preparing to re-open its passenger services after a gap of over five […]
Graduate Workers: ‘Reopening Endangers Students, Highlights Racial Inequalities’ By Northwestern University Graduate Workers, Daily Northwestern. August 28, 2020 Graduate Workers: ‘Reopening Endangers Students, Highlights Racial Inequalities’2020-08-282020-08-28https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/08/nwu-e1598636962223.jpg200px200px Above photo:Graduate students lead a march for equal rights on campus in the spring of 2019. Colin Boyle. It is less than a month before Fall Quarter begins, and despite daily warnings against doing so, Northwestern insists on proceeding with […]
www.youtube.com Florida Schools Reopening in Limbo UPDATE: The state has filed a notice of intent to appeal, automatically freezing the effect of the ruling. “Judge strikes down Florida’s schools reopening order as unconstitutional; state appeals” https://t.co/ryBzz2HBL7 via @TDOnline — Jim Rosica (@JimRosicaFL) August 25, 2020 Health Editor’s Note: Reopening schools will create a vast opportunity for coronavirus spread. Colleges, most grade school classes, and middle and […]
New York City schools Chancellor Richard Carranza speaks at New Bridges Elementary School in Brooklyn on Aug. 19. Carranza has said that without an infusion of cash, thousands of city education jobs could be lost. Jeenah Moon/Bloomberg via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Jeenah Moon/Bloomberg via Getty Images New York City schools Chancellor Richard Carranza speaks at New Bridges Elementary School in Brooklyn on Aug. […]
New York Teachers Union To Strike Against School Reopening August 21, 2020 New York Teachers Union To Strike Against School Reopening2020-08-212020-08-21https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/08/teachers-protest-re-opening-from-izod-news-e1597242732951.jpg200px200px Above photo: Teachers protest re-opening from Izod News. Despite Donald Trump’s administration pressure for schools reopening, several states and institutions postponed the resume of learning activities or issued not-in-person strategies due to new spikes of COVID-19 cases. The U.S New York United Federation of Teachers (UFT) […]
At least 41 schools in Berlin say that hundreds of their students and teachers are in quarantine, less than two weeks after schools reopened their doors in the German capital. Elementary schools, high schools and trade schools are all affected, the daily Berliner Zeitung wrote on Friday, and city education authorities confirmed these figures to AP. The reopening of schools and the possible risks of virus […]
School Cancelled In Arizona Area After ‘Sick Out’ Over Reopening August 17, 2020 School Cancelled In Arizona Area After ‘Sick Out’ Over Reopening2020-08-172020-08-17https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/08/school-protest-return-when-safe-e1597676056696.jpg200px200px An Arizona school district that ignored state safety guidelines and voted to begin in-person learning on Aug. 17 has had to cancel classes after staff said it was unsafe to return and called in sick. Greater Phoenix’s J.O. Combs Unified School District canceled […]
Reopening Schools: We Don’t Have To Descend Into COVID Hell By Steve Miller, Rosemary Lee and E.B. Shaw, HamptonThink.org. August 16, 2020 Reopening Schools: We Don’t Have To Descend Into COVID Hell2020-08-162020-08-16https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/08/school-e1597621537164.jpg200px200px Above photo: Gov. Lamont speaks with hospital staff. Mark Lennihan/AP. With Corona virus cases spiking across the country, America is on the verge of forcing millions of people into extreme danger. Suddenly, everyone from CEOs, […]
An employee tested positive for the disease just days after the club was allowed to reopen, despite tight social distancing restrictions and a mandatory mask-wearing policy for customers and staff members. You MUST leave your mask on. A strip club in downtown Toronto may have exposed as many as 550 people to COVID-19, city health officials warn. Toronto Public Health issued the warning after an employee […]
School Bus Drivers: ‘No Reopening Without Safety First!’ By USWA Local 8751, Workers.org. August 11, 2020 School Bus Drivers: ‘No Reopening Without Safety First!’2020-08-112020-08-11https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/08/bus-e1597167325962.jpeg200px200px Above photo: Left to right, USW Local 8751 Chief Steward Frantz Cadet, Trustee Fred Floreal, and President Andre François at May 14 action in conjunction with Haitian Flag Day. The union protested recent unjust firings of their members and demanded enforcement of Local […]
Grad Students And Faculty ‘Die In’ To Protest Reopening August 8, 2020 Grad Students And Faculty ‘Die In’ To Protest Reopening2020-08-082020-08-08https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/08/georgia-e1596892948618.jpg200px200px Above photo: Getty images. The University of Georgia staff and graduate students held a silent “die-in” demonstration Friday to protest plans for the campus reopening during the COVID-19 pandemic. Nearly 50 demonstrators lay scattered 6 feet apart wearing face coverings on the lawn outside the […]
Parents Stand With Educators On Safety Before Reopening Schools By Brenda Álvarez, NEA Today. August 5, 2020 Parents Stand With Educators On Safety Before Reopening Schools2020-08-052020-08-05https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/08/reopening_protest-e1596645944554.jpeg200px200px Above photo: AP Photo/Rick Bowmer. Many parents nationwide are questioning whether it’s safe to send their kids back to a brick and mortar school this fall. With varied life circumstances, and different districts and schools choosing different options, it’s a daunting […]
National teacher union supports strikes over reopening plans by Collin Binkely/AP education writer/abcnews One of the nation’s largest teachers unions is authorizing its members to strike if their schools plan to reopen without proper safety measures in the middle of the global pandemic. The American Federation of Teachers, which represents 1.7 million school employees, issued a resolution on Tuesday saying it will support any local chapter […]
What Scientists Know About How Children Spread COVID-19 By Jim Morrison/Smithsonianmag.com Every year, children are a major driver of transmission for the viruses that cause the flu and the common cold. So this March, when the COVID-19 pandemic hit the United States, Tina Hartert of the Vanderbilt School of Medicine expected the same to be true for the novel coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2. But months later, Hartert and […]
When Irem Ozturk got the email from Dickinson College in mid-June announcing “we intend to bring all students back to campus,” she was elated. She’s originally from Turkey, but after two years on campus, she’s come to think of Carlisle, Pa., as home. “I was thrilled because I felt like I was returning back home, excited to see friends and faculty,” she says. “I felt happy. […]
Florida’s largest teachers’ union is suing Governor Ron DeSantis and the state education bureaucracy over their emergency order to reopen schools for the fall, insisting the mandate is “reckless” and “unconscionable.” The suit, which also targets Miami-Dade County Mayor Carlos Gimenez, calls for the immediate cancellation of the emergency order, arguing reopening schools too soon will “inevitably exacerbate the spread of the virus, jeopardize public health, […]
Health Editor’s Note: Making sure schools reopen in the fall is one of the top items on Trump’s ‘Hate Americans” wish list. Yes, I said that…hate. He has to hate us or he would be listening to all the medical input he can get to try to halt this COVID-19 run away wildfire. Trump thinks sending kids back to school, creating a sense of normalization, will […]
Research suggests that kids tend to get infected with the coronavirus less often, and have milder symptoms than adults. There’s less consensus on how much kids can spread the illness among themselves and to adults — important questions as schools consider reopening. Dan Kenyon/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Dan Kenyon/Getty Images Research suggests that kids tend to get infected with the coronavirus less often, and […]
As the coronavirus pandemic continues to pummel the United States, Las Vegas seems to be operating business as usual. Casinos have been open since June 4—undeterred by the 123 visitors who have tested positive for the highly contagious virus and the 51-year-old Caesars employee who died in late June. But it’s not business as usual for doctors and nurses in Las Vegas’ besieged health-care system, who […]
White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany was lambasted online after relaying the president’s support for reopening schools this fall, but a quote singled out by critics was deceptively stripped of all context. The row was sparked during a White House presser on Thursday, after a reporter asked McEnany about how parents might approach the upcoming academic year, as a growing number of school districts around the […]
Schools closed by the pandemic in the US may not open in the fall. Student and teacher safety is the latest issue to become politicized in the presidential election campaign, as both parties insist science is on their side. “We have to open our schools,” said President Donald Trump, who on Tuesday called the decision of the biggest school district in California not to reopen for […]
Gateway Pundit readers may recall the story of Lindsey Graham (no, not that one), the salon owner in Salem, Oregon, who opened her shop in defiance of Governor Kate Brown’s shut down orders. She was threatened with $70,000 in fines, targeted by the rioters, her building lease was jeopardized, and the state threatened to take her children away. She was eventually hit with $14,000 in fines […]
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos on Sunday morning couldn’t promise teachers, students and parents that they wouldn’t get sick from coronavirus if schools fully reopen this fall, as the Trump administration has been aggressively pushing for in recent days. DeVos and President Donald Trump launched a pressure campaign this past week to force and threaten state and local school districts to fully reopen schools for full-time, in-person […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107878/97/1078789773_0:221:2100:1403_1200x675_80_0_0_cec87b3f070cdd0c4e6db53da6237433.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/world/202007111079853812-us-government-allocates-84-million-in-drone-space-tech-shipbuilding-contracts/ WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – The US government has approved $84 million in contracts to protect unmanned aerial vehicles, space technology and shipbuilding during the COVID-19 crisis, the Department of Defence said in a press release. “As part of the national response to COVID-19, and to support the domestic small unmanned aerial system (sUAS) industrial base, the Department of Defence awarded […]
On a call with the nation’s governors Tuesday, Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos chastised local officials for doing “next to nothing” to provide academic services to students and demanded they reopen schools in the fall regardless of the state of the COVID pandemic. The issue, DeVos stressed at one point, was merely a matter of calculated risk, nothing all that different from those taken by an […]
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, seen here during a White House briefing in March, will participate in a panel discussion Tuesday on how to reopen America’s schools safely. Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, seen here during a White House briefing in March, will participate in a panel discussion Tuesday on how to reopen America’s […]
Mexico, the world’s 6th most popular tourist destination, is open for tourism business despite its cases of COVID-19 being on the rise. The pressure to reopen comes from economic need, as tourism accounts for about 10 percent of Mexico’s economy, directly. And that’s just the tip of the iceberg in a country where the informal economy dominates at about 60 percent of the workforce. Reluctant to […]
On Monday, New York City moved into Phase II, allowing New Yorkers their closest sense of normalcy in months. But even though the transition to the second phase of reopening symbolizes New York City’s progress in containing the coronavirus, it doesn’t necessarily provide a reprieve from the restrictions and worries for New Yorkers. “The reopening has not really changed how I feel,” Dior Vargas, a 33-year-old […]