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Few states are accurately tracking coronavirus vaccinations by race. Some aren’t at all. Lola Fadulu, Dan Keating © Sarah L. Voisin/The Washington Post A line of people waited outside the Model Cities Senior Wellness Center in D.C. to get a coronavirus vaccination on Tuesday. Most states are not publicly reporting racial data on people receiving coronavirus vaccines, despite disproportionate covid-19 death rates for Black and Hispanic people and rising concerns about who ...

Chicago Teachers Union votes to refuse in-person classes and continue remote instruction Dawn Reiss CHICAGO —The Chicago Teachers Union voted to refuse in-person instruction Sunday and directed educators to work remotely starting Monday. The decision comes two weeks after the nations third-largest school district called teachers and staff into classrooms and started to lock them out from remote work. Chicago Public Schools chief executive Janice Jackson had said the actio...

Trump sowed divisions until the bitter end. It may have been his biggest success. Courtland Milloy In preparing a farewell to President Trump, I reviewed television footage of him sowing doubt about President Barack Obama’s nationality. “He doesn’t have a birth certificate,” Trump tells Fox News in March 2011. “He may have one, but there is something on that birth certificate — maybe religion, maybe it says he’s a Muslim; I don’t know.” The following mo...

Montgomery County schools superintendent announces retirement Donna St. George The superintendent of Maryland’s largest school system announced his retirement Thursday, saying he would step down in June because of family difficulties, nearly five years after he arrived in suburban Montgomery County. Jack R. Smith, 63, told teachers and staff members in the 161,000-student system that he planned to join his wife, Gayle, in Maine, where she has been helping their daughter�...

Chicago teachers balk at reopening plan, face pay loss if they don’t return Dawn Reiss CHICAGO —Chicago Public Schools will reopen for some students Monday for the first time since last spring amid an escalating clash between city officials, who are threatening to withhold pay from teachers who do not show up, and the powerful Chicago Teachers Union, which contends that schools are not properly outfitted to combat the coronavirus. Teachers who don’t show up for work M...

Maryland places disabled adults in group homes high on vaccine priority list Rebecca Tan Thousands of Marylanders with intellectual disabilities who live in group homes, and those who care for them, learned Tuesday that they would soon be eligible for the coronavirus vaccine, putting an end to weeks of lobbying and worry. In what came as a surprise announcement to providers, advocates and relatives of the disabled, Gov. Larry Hogan (R) said residents and staff of “special...

‘Equity hubs’ give families struggling financially a chance at pandemic pods Donna St. George © Sarah L. Voisin/The Washington Post Second-grader Geofrey Arika, left, and Zechariah Walker, a third-grader, work in their virtual classes as other students start to enjoy recess. Nine months after the pandemic closed down Stedwick Elementary School, learning in suburban Montgomery County is still all remote. But while most students plug in on laptops from home, some are on c...

Virginia reports record number of coronavirus cases for second day in a row Julie Zauzmer, Lola Fadulu, Rebecca Tan The state of Virginia reported the highest number of new coronavirus cases of any day in the nine-month pandemic on Christmas Eve, as local officials and business owners across the region debated the legality of increasingly stringent measures meant to contain the highly contagious virus. On Thursday, 4,782 coronavirus cases were reported in Virginia, breaking...

The mammoth covid-19 relief and spending bill: What’s in it for the DMV? Meagan Flynn © Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images Sen. Mark R. Warner (D-Va.) and other members of Congress discuss the coronavirus relief bill Dec. 14. From broadband expansion to vaccine distribution, the mammoth economic relief and spending package passed by Congress late Monday will infuse hundreds of millions of dollars into the Washington region, addressing both short-term pandemic needs and some maj...

It’s time to help make peace. That starts with education. Courtland Milloy Noted pacifist Colman McCarthy didn’t get to teach his peace studies class at American University this semester because of coronavirus school disruptions. So, I called him for a crash course to share with readers, figuring we could all use a lesson in peacemaking these days. Homicides and aggravated assaults are on the rise, in both the D.C. area and the nation. Stress continues to build over hea...