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Speaking to reporters at the White House Tuesday afternoon, Press Secretary Jen Psaki denied the American Federation of Teachers shaped guidance from the Centers for Disease Control on school reopenings. First, that s false. Let s take a step back and take a step back and talk about how the CDC works. The CDC, it s actually longstanding best practice for the CDC to engage with organizations and groups that are going to be impacted by guidance and recommendations issued by the agency. It doesn t mean they are taking everything they want or even a percentage of what they want, but it s important to understand the implementation components. They do so to ensure that recommendations are feasible and that they adequately address the safety and well being of the individuals the guidance is aimed to protect, Psaki said. The CDC engaged with around 50 stakeholders that were on the front lines of this pandemic.
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White House press secretary Jen Psaki defended a teachers union s role in developing guidelines circulated by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) during a briefing on Tuesday.
Psaki said it was standard procedure for the CDC to consult outside groups when making recommendations. It’s actually longstanding best practice for the CDC to engage with organizations, groups that are going to be impacted by guidance and recommendations issued by the agency, press secretary Jen Psaki said. It doesn t mean they are taking everything they want, or even a percentage of what they want.
By Stan Greer | May 3, 2021 | 3:19pm EDT
American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten gives a speech. (Photo credit: SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images)
This spring, government union bosses like Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT/AFL-CIO), are continuing to claim it remains too dangerous to reopen fully thousands and thousands of K-12 schools across the country that closed their doors in early 2020.
But a recent poll shows that parents of the very schoolchildren about whom Weingarten and her cohorts purport to be concerned lopsidedly disagree.
A nationwide scientific survey of K-12 parents conducted Feb. 14-21 by Gallup found that,
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Dallas teachers take pay raise demands to school board May 3, 2021 10:49 AM CDT By Stu Becker
Members of the Alliance/AFT at the 2019/20 Dallas ISD School Board meeting. | Stuart Becker / People s World
DALLAS Members of Alliance/AFT, the local American Federation of Teachers union in the Dallas Independent School District (ISD), took its demand for pay raises to the city’s school board on April 22. The union is demanding 7% pay raises for teachers and a 5% increase for support staff, along with a $1,000 bonus in January 2022.