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Raised more money in off-election year than Walker or Doyle. By Wisconsin Democracy Campaign - Jan 27th, 2021 09:54 am //end headline wrapper ?>Gov. Tony Evers. Office of Gov. Tony Evers
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Tony Evers raised more than $3.8 million in 2020, with more than half of it coming from the state Democratic Party.
A recently filed campaign finance report that covered fundraising and spending for the last four months of the year showed the Evers campaign spent more than $1.7 million and ended 2020 with about $3.4 million in his campaign account.
Evers’ largest contributor was the state Democratic Party, which gave his campaign nearly $2.7 million last year. The campaign returned about $508,200, reducing the total contributions from the party to nearly $2.2 million for 2020.
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On January 8, when New York governor Andrew Cuomo announced that at the present rate it would take 14 weeks to vaccinate the first two priority groups, I immediately opened my calendar. Teachers and education workers are in the second group, so by mid-April, I figured, my children’s schools would finally open full-time.
Parents throughout the country have been making similar calculations. Like in New York, teachers in a majority of states have been bumped to near the front of the Covid-19 vaccine line, ahead of most other people, including millions who are at a higher risk of illness and death than many teachers. From Tennessee to Illinois to New Jersey, teachers unions around the country vigorously advocated for this privileged position. “We cannot safely and fully return to face-to-face instruction without putting our public school workers at the top of the priority list,” said Claudia Briggs, spokeswoman
Vaccines Among Last Hurdles To Open New Mexico Classrooms - By Cedar Attanasio Associated Press/Report For America
New Mexico s teacher s unions say a slow vaccine rollout and the expiration of federal COVID-19 sick leave are the remaining hurdles to getting students in schools.
On Tuesday, Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham announced that some of the power to reopen schools will be given back to local districts nearly a year after they closed their doors.
That decision came with the blessing of union officials and a promise to the state s teachers, who are among the oldest and therefore most vulnerable teaching population in the country.
Covid 19 coronavirus: A dying teacher, worrying over students to his last breaths
27 Jan, 2021 08:55 PM
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Erick Ortiz with his family on his birthday. Dad was everything to them, Maria Ortiz said of the couple s three children. Photo / Brandon Thibodeaux, The New York Times
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By: Dan Levin
The death of a beloved educator in Houston, like others across the country, has deepened teachers fears and conflict over in-person instruction. Erick Ortiz lay in a hospital bed just before Thanksgiving, struggling to breathe. Unable to see his family, he texted his wife, concerned about his high school chemistry students: Have they assigned a sub for my classes?