Lou Corsaro, a Point Park spokesperson, said the university “respects the arbitration process and the decision regarding nonrenewal notices previously sent to 17 nontenured faculty members.”
In his decision, Matthew M. Franckiewicz, the independent arbitrator, said that what Point Park was trying to do was clearly a reduction in force, “couched” in contract language meant to deal with individual faculty separations of employment. Franckiewicz also rejected what he called the university’s “somewhat convoluted construction” of contract language surrounding seniority.
Franckiewicz’s analysis like the faculty union grievance that triggered it centers on two faculty contract provisions, Articles 18 and 31. Article 18, which is what the university cited in mid-February layoff notices to faculty members, says that the university doesn’t have to establish cause for not renewing someone who is not tenured if the nonrenewal is “due to a position elimination in accor
National Parents Union President Keri Rodrigues expresses frustration about why parents unions weren t asked about school reopening guidelines
Republican Sen. Susan Collins on Tuesday said she used to have the utmost respect for the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention, but she doesn’t anymore, saying conflicting, confusing guidance from the agency is undermining public confidence.
CDC Director Rochelle Walensky testified before the Senate Health Committee on Tuesday, amid criticism from Republicans over what measures and restrictions are still necessary to protect the public against the novel coronavirus as more and more Americans become vaccinated.
Collins, R-Maine, on Tuesday grilled Walensky on conflicting guidance related to school reopenings, wearing masks outside, and summer camps.
Centers for Diseases Control (CDC) Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky has “recommended” that children wear masks while playing. Her offered reason is to ensure Covid is not spread by “heavy breathing” of children near each other while around a soccer ball.
Dr. Walensky’s recommendation is one more example of Covid authoritarians’ refusal to “listen to the science.” The science says no to lockdowns and masks. The masks are not blocking the very small viruses in “heavy breathing.” Dr. Walensky also ignores the science showing that wearing a mask while exercising or playing sports has negative health effects.
Dr. Walensky’s most outrageous disregard of science is ignoring the fact that children are statistically unlikely to be at risk of either spreading Covid or becoming very sick from it.
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Despite the reopening happy talk, more than half of all California’s k-12 students remain in distance learning.
While schools in California have reopened, a study by EdSource reveals that 55 percent of all public school students in California have not returned to their physical classroom. And just 13 percent of all students in the Golden State have resumed school in a traditional way. All this despite the fact that every teacher has now had the ability to be vaccinated for the Covid virus, and that children are anything but “super-spreaders.”
While some parents still harbor an irrational fear of Covid, much of the resistance to returning to government schools is a distrust/dislike of any form of distance learning. The situation is especially noxious in Los Angeles where a great number of children are subjected to the “Zoom in a Room” regimen. While kids do return to a physical classroom, they are stuck in their chairs for the bulk of the day as their teachers try to