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NEW YORK, NY – New York Senate Republican Leader Rob Ortt and Deputy Senate Republican Leader Andrew Lanza today penned a letter to New York City Mayor Eric Adams, supporting him on his decision to keep NYC schools open, and urging him to maintain this policy. “As you well know, the pandemic and subsequent move away from in-person learning have taken a devastating toll on our children’s educational attainment and mental health.

Their technical experts to get the booster recommendation for young people, including teenagers. >> brian: i would just like to add thats happening. i have two college aged kids and all their friends, not one of them is going back to an institution, private, public or state without them saying you have to have a booster or proof that you the infection and then you need a few weeks before or a month or so before you get a booster again. a lot of these kids are getting boosted, and talk to people....

Have the capacity to keep up with all the kids or is in a low income area. and these teachers are saying there is lingering impact on the students. learning loss, even mayor lightfoot said that, the learning loss was profound in chicago. lincoln way, the families there in new lennox a suburb of chicago. they found out on monday that they were going to be remote for the rest of the week. so then parents are scrambling, what do we do? we dont have child care. we have got to go back to work. brian,...

On somewhats happening with the workforce. we have to be very adaptive in 2022. but thats towards a pretty good finish line. in other words, its going to be really dark days ahead. but part of that is because, you know, basically we are now learning to live with a virus, hard to imagine. and not simply die by it, which was the only option we had in 2020. >> i understand, and i hear your voice there was a lot of optimism there, i think there was a lot of yo-yo, we are going back to the office, we...

Rough. my recommendation would be, um, not push this right now. if even delaying it two weeks, if we could start going on the downslope in terms of covid-19 transmission, that can make a huge difference and even the best measures when you have that high level of transmission could be really tough. >> i hear you. but the mayor is saying, look, schools have been safe. schools are where kids need to be. the science is clear, schools need to be open and speaking not as a scientist but as a working p...

Studies that have been published showing you have tremendously higher rates of diabetes and obesity in children, there was a study in kaiser permanente that led to a ton of medical records, anxiety and depression that was talked about, enormous spikes in suicide and then we need to talk about the learning loss that occurs. kids have missed an entire year of school already and those kids who cant afford to pay for private tutors which is about 98% of them are the ones who really suffer, the one w...

Covid-19 case numbers and at school district were slight compared to school population. look at his take. >> shutting down an entire school system of kids that have already struggled with distance learning for nearly a year, it is just outrageous and wrong. >> parents through that school boards will continue with virtual learning as a remedy for staffing issues. >> there is very little spread within schools. we saw a huge amount of harm to kids, emotionally with learning loss. none of that has b...

The Payson school board last week approved a $4.3 million plan to spend the final installment of federal pandemic assistance between now and 2024.

Decide school is more important. the flu is bad. it kills 30 million to 40 million americans every year. covid is much worse than the flu. so taking those operations for covid makes sense but it also doesnt make sense to go to some zero covid strategy. and what he said was important we cant create another pandemic in the course of trying to treat one and we have. we created a mental health pandemic and physical health pandemic. when you look at drug overdoses and rates among mental health proble...

More Harm, New Excuses.