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Educators Call For Vaccine Priority In Joint Letter To State Leaders
Several local educator groups and officials are calling on the state of Oklahoma to give them COVID-19 vaccination priority since they have been working on the front lines of the pandemic, just like many others.
In a joint letter released by Tulsa Public Schools Superintendent Deborah Gist, Tulsa Classroom Teachers Association President Shawna Mott-Wright, and American Federation of Teachers 6049 President Nancy Leonard said that prioritizing educators and other school team members for COVID-19 vaccination is necessary.
“All across the country, states have prioritized teachers and other school team members for the COVID-19 vaccine. We simply believe Oklahoma should do the same, which is why we continue to advocate for teachers, and our team, to be a higher priority in our state.”
Fauci says Biden 100-day school reopening plan may not happen Print this article
President Biden s chief medical adviser Anthony Fauci warned that a 100-day school reopening plan might not pan out.
The United States will not return to normalcy unless schools begin in-person coursework, Fauci said. Biden released a school reopening plan on Jan. 21 that included guidance on protocol, data collection, a unified testing strategy, $130 billion in aid for K-12 schools, and $160 billion in additional vaccine funds.
“The president is taking very seriously the issue, both from the students’ standpoint and from the teachers’ standpoint,” Fauci said at a Thursday town hall hosted by the American Federation of Teachers and the National Education Association. [Biden] believes that the [K-8] schools need to reopen in the next 100 days. . That’s the goal. That may not happen, because there may be mitigating circumstances, but what he really wants to do is everything within his p
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It’s a time of transition, both in Washington DC and in Springfield. Nationally, the Biden Administration is filling out its Cabinet and other appointments. In Springfield, newly-minted Speaker Welch is working through new House rules and committee chair appointments for the upcoming legislative session. All of these changes will have an impact on policy, and we are tracking them all.
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State Representative Emanuel Chris Welch has been officially chosen to be the new Speaker of the Illinois House, ending Speaker Michael Madigan’s run as Illinois’ longest-serving House Speaker
COVID-19 variants will soon outnumber cases of original strain, Fauci says By Audrey McNamara COVID-19 variant cases will outnumber original strain, Fauci says
Dr. Anthony Fauci said Friday that new variants of the coronavirus that were initially found in the United Kingdom, South Africa and Brazil and have since been identified in the United States are expected to persist and eventually outnumber cases of the earlier strain of the virus. We will continue to see the evolution of mutants, Fauci, the nation s leading infectious diseases expert, said at a news briefing Friday.
The variant first identified in the U.K. has now been found in 29 U.S. states, according to Dr. Rochelle Walensky, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Highly contagious variants first identified in South Africa and Brazil have also been found stateside.