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February 22, 2021 5:00 AM
After calling for an end to partisan gerrymandering, House speaker Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.) quietly funneled hundreds of thousands of dollars to former attorney general Eric Holder s effort to redraw electoral maps in favor of Democrats, filings show.
Pelosi s leadership PAC, PAC to the Future, pushed $300,000 to Holder s National Democratic Redistricting Committee late last year. In 2019, Pelosi said partisan gerrymandering efforts compromise the integrity of our democracy.
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Holder’s group is gearing up for a once-a-decade redistricting process that significantly influences which party controls Congress. It will serve as a data and legal hub and as a go-between for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee and state legislatures, according to
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A window fan in a classroom at Nebinger elementary school. Such fans are being used for ventilation in 32 Philadelphia schools. (Dale Mezzacappa/Chalkbeat)
This story originally appeared on Chalkbeat Philadelphia.
Big cities across the nation, from Boston to New York to Chicago, have managed to hammer out differences between their school districts and teachers’ unions over the gradual reopening of schools.
In Philadelphia, not so much.
Here, school buildings have been closed for nearly a year. A mediation process between the Philadelphia Federation of Teachers and the district has dragged for weeks, delaying the district’s planned opening of schools for some prekindergarten through second grade students until March 1. Teachers refused to re-enter buildings on Feb. 8 to prepare, choosing to protest outside their schools instead.
By Susan Jones | February 22, 2021 | 6:16am EST
Empty chairs and desks in a high school classroom. (Photo by James Leynse/Corbis via Getty Images)
(CNSNews.com) - The teachers of this country understand that in-person education is really important, Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, told NBC s Meet the Press on Sunday.
And now that the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has laid out a roadmap for re-opening schools, Weingarten expects that to happen eventually and with limitations. What does full school opening mean? Weingarten asked rhetorically:
If you have if you do six feet of physical distancing you re essentially saying in a school, you re going to have you re going to have about 50 percent or 60 percent of people in there at any one time, not 100 percent.