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Reactions to Chauvin guilty verdict: Only a first step to justice April 22, 2021 11:00 AM CDT By PAI
Celebrations broke out nationwide after the verdict was read. Here, the scene outside AFL-CIO headquarters in Washington. | AP
WASHINGTON The overwhelming reaction to the Minneapolis jury’s verdict finding former city police officer Derek Chauvin guilty on all charges of murder and manslaughter in kneeing George Floyd to death last year was that it was great, but only a first step towards justice.
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AFT, NEA protest new anti-virus school reopening guidelines April 8, 2021 10:17 AM CDT By Mark Gruenberg
Randi Weingerten, president of the AFT, sent a letter to Dr. Rochelle Walensky, director of the Centers for Disease Control, pictured here, opposing some of the safety guidelines for reopening of schools drawn up by the CDC. | massgeneral.org
WASHINGTON The nation’s two big teachers unions are protesting Biden administration guidance which says students returning to reopened schools can sit only three feet from each other, not six, but only after schools take other measures to combat potential community spread of the coronavirus.
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A Year of COVID-19: What It Looked Like for Schools A Timeline 13 min read A Timeline 13 min read
It started with the closure of a single high school in Washington state on Feb. 27, 2020.
A school employee’s relative had gotten sick and tested positive for the coronavirus. The school underwent a deep cleaning and reopened two days later.
One month later, nearly every school building in the United States was shut down, an unfathomable moment. Schools scrambled to stand up a remote learning program some virtual, some by passing out packets of learning materials.
Most of us thought this disruption would last a few weeks, maybe a month.