“I’m glad to keep doing the work for kids, Lewis said. I’m literally just ready to start moving this district forward again.
Henry’s loss means he will leave the school board. The Oklahoma City attorney has represented the northernmost corner of the school district since 2017 but was prohibited from running for re-election to his seat and for board chairperson in the same election cycle.
Henry could not be reached for comment Tuesday night.
Lewis, an occupational therapist, took a familiar path to her election victory. She won the 2017 general election for board chairperson after trailing her opponent in the primary.
AFT s Weingarten smears Jews as ownership class Randi Weingarten / Getty Images Graham Piro • April 7, 2021 4:59 am
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Union leader Randi Weingarten criticized Jews as part of the ownership class dedicated to denying opportunities to others in an interview released on Friday.
Weingarten who is herself Jewish and draws a six-figure salary as head of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) took aim at American Jews in an interview with the
Jerusalem Post. When asked about parents critical of the AFT s resistance to school reopening, Weingarten took aim squarely at Jewish critics. American Jews are now part of the ownership class, Weingarten said. Jews were immigrants from somewhere else. And they needed the right to have public education. And they needed power to have enough income and wealth for their families that they could put their kids through college and their kids could do better than they have done.
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American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten drew accusations of anti-Semitism after challenging Jewish Americans in a new interview.
The controversy came in response to an interview published in the Jewish Telegraphic Agency last week, in which Weingarten was quoted as describing American Jews as now part of the ownership class in response to a question about Jewish critics of the teachers’ union’s power and influence amid a coronavirus school reopening fight. Jews were immigrants from somewhere else, and they needed the right to have public education, she said. And they needed power to have enough income and wealth for their families that they could put their kids through college and their kids could do better than they have done. Both economic opportunity through the labor movement and an educational opportunity through public education were key for Jews to go from the work
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Three years ago, teachers in Kentucky joined the burgeoning #RedforEd movement by staging a protest against a pension reform bill that legislators rammed through in less than 24 hours. They followed up with a sickout that shut down some two dozen school districts.
Those labor actions were not organized by the Kentucky Education Association, the state National Education Association affiliate that represents about 27,500 working K-12 public school employees. A Facebook group calling itself KY 120 United was responsible.
The state Supreme Court later struck down the bill, but KY 120 United continued its activism, organizing protests in 2019 and lobbying the legislature. It sometimes acted in concert with the state union, and other times alone. This unstable relationship came to an abrupt end last week, when the leaders of KY 120 United announced that the group would become an affiliate of the American Federation of Teachers.
Covid-19 Live Updates: Nearly 80% of School Workers Have Gotten a Vaccine, C.D.C. Says
The Biden administration has made an ambitious push to reopen schools and return to in-person instruction by the president’s 100th day in office.
Here’s what you need to know:
A mass vaccination event for teachers in Carteret, N.J., this month. About eight million school employees had received at least one vaccine dose by the end of March.Credit.Bryan Anselm for The New York Times
Nearly 80 percent of school staff and child care workers in the United States have received at least one dose of the coronavirus vaccine, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Tuesday.