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Getting better but when you think theyre bad, theyre bad. i think theres an economy that goes beyond health and affects everybodys life in general. >> to your point this has been a tough winter and the pandemic was around everything. the garbage piling up as omicron takes its toll. texas schools struggling to take open. bus drivers and teachers call out sick. theres a sense this is prevailing in peoples day-to-day lives. and in virginia you see the consequence of a loss, what it looks like. you ...

New york state also modifying its own policy for essential workers, cutting the isolation time to five days >> health care, transportation, grocery stores, all the things that we have identified are important, that they can get back to work as soon as it is safe to do so. >> reporter: experts pointing to more changes to come begin the need for everything from bus drivers to supermarket cashiers. >> i think many states and many employers will follow suit simply because of staffing. >> reporter: t...

The district. metro atlanta schools also returning to in-person learning after almost a week of going remote. the largest district in the nation, new york started the new year in person. so far just one single classroom in partial quarantine. >> i think at this point there is no good explanation for having remote schools. >> still disruption ripple throughout the country. some in greensboro, north carolina are without bus drivers made worse by rising covid-19 cases. and a more dire situation for...

Well, we warn them, but they didnt listen. democrats leaders clung to lockdowns and then replaced them with vaccines and mask mandates. what was the result? a stagnant nation and even regression with public transportation telling the story best. now at the start of the year, new york public transit ridership was at about 45% so of prepandemic levels. in d.c., the metro bus system scaled back weekday service to a we can schedule, that is how bad it is in d.c. st. louis a shortage of bus drivers h...

Nations licensing boards which would be great. so that would really help. were also like the snowplows today that you just showed, having a huge problem with bus drivers, and what we really need is like a plan around our labor shortage here. and we need to marshall all of the best thinking that we have to ensure that we have teachers in our classroom today and teachers in our classroom this fall. >> you know, i believe it was the state of massachusetts where your governor there had to call up th...

Want the courts to force teachers back into the classroom. >> they are basically using our children as pawns. our kids have been pawns since the beginning of this pandemic, started two years ago. we want them back in the classroom. where they belong. teaching our children. >> the union is blaming the ongoing standoff on chicago mayor lori lightfoot for not compromising enough. it says it wants teachers back in the classroom this week just without students until the number of covid cases goes dow...

For bus drivers. this has been an area that has seen some of the most acute shortages with 50% of districts describing the bus driver shortages as severe. heres a stat. the past year there was a vacancy rate in education overall, not just bus drivers, of about 35%. that does that tell us? schools couldnt afford the hit that covid and omicron is now dealing to them with so many now calling in sick across all professions. the secretary told me he does my this will change. that this change theyre m...

Voices with concerns. >> do we feel safe in her school building? >> no. >> a record of 580,000 kids testing positive for covert across the country as big urban countries on the north or sing attendance rates fall roughly 20%. in brooklyn hundreds of students left their high school classrooms and protests demanding new york city offer remote learning. attendance they are hitting 76%. and hovering even lower around 70% los angeles, chicago, and boston were students are planning out walkouts for fr...

Absences on a daily basis right now between 260/270. and we have 140 teaching vacancies on top of that we had to readjust. we had to call off school, reassess with our teachers and administrators and say we will go to this new hybrid model. we seen some success since we implemented it. >> reporter: it seems to be work, its a day-to-day thing. you dont know how many teachers, staff, bus drivers, other support staff you are going to have on any given day. across connect, teachers are also concerne...

Better educator pay, rising insurance costs, this is just a small fraction of the puzzle. we have had shortages pre-pandemic, and im sure well have them post-pandemic too but until we address the system as a whole, i think were going to continue to see this. >> and continue to see teachers leaving the profession as well. whitney holland, thank you so much for your time this morning. good luck to you guys. still to come, eight nfl teams go head to head this weekend as we inch closer to the supe...