Reopening debate testing Biden s ties with teachers uni accesswdun.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from accesswdun.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
The increasingly heated school reopening debate is forcing President Joe Biden to balance two priorities: getting children back into the classroom and preserving the support of powerful labor groups that helped him get elected.
Omaha Public Schools pushes for fully in-person learning despite widespread opposition
Students in an Omaha classroom [Credit: Omaha Public Schools Facebook]
OPS is Nebraska’s largest school district, with over 50,000 students. A smaller school district adjacent to Omaha, Ralston Public Schools (RPS), will resume fully in-person schooling this month. These moves force educators and students into deadly working conditions coincides with the news that Nebraska’s teachers are not likely to get vaccines until as late as April, according to WOWT 6 News.
OPS was remote at the beginning of the semester in August, but since September the district has been following a hybrid model. Groups of students come to school based on their last names, with Wednesday being an alternating day for the two halves of the alphabet. The model is not based on numbers of students, so if the first or second half have an especially large number of students, this is not taken into consideration.
KUOW - Should Schools Reopen If Teachers Aren t Yet Vaccinated? CDC Will Soon Weigh In kuow.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from kuow.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.