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Gov. Charlie Baker said Friday teachers could start getting vaccinated by mid-March, depending on the dose supply. (Shutterstock)
MASSACHUSETTS Comments by Gov. Charlie Baker Friday indicate a potential win for teachers in the conversation around reopening schools. Baker said teachers could start getting vaccinated by mid-March, but the plan is supply dependent.
The governor s remarks came as he visited a pooled testing program at Nock Middle School in Newburyport, Boston 25 reported.
Widespread vaccinations for teachers and school staff has been a sticking point in the fight over resuming in-person learning. The Massachusetts Teachers Association has advocated for the state to add teachers to the priority group receiving vaccines in the first few phases of the rollout.
Gov. Charlie Baker encourages more Massachusetts schools to partake in pooled COVID testing while touring Newburyport middle school
Updated Feb 26, 2021;
Posted Feb 26, 2021
Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker tours a pooled COVID-19 testing program during a visit to the Nock-Molin Middle School in Newburyport, Massachusetts. (Staff photo by Nicolaus Czarnecki/MediaNews Group/Boston Herald)BH
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At a school in Newburyport Friday morning, Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker touted a COVID-19 pooled testing program as a major component of how education moves forward during the ongoing pandemic.
Baker was touring the Nock-Molin Middle School in Newburyport with Secretary of Education James Peyser, Department of Elementary and Secondary Education Commissioner Jeffrey Riley and Newburyport Mayor Donna D. Holaday.