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Karen GJ Lewis saw the future of public education. At the heart of her vision was a radical faith that fully funded public schools could prepare children to meet every social, economic, and democratic challenge of the 21st century.
As the president of the Chicago Teachers Union from 2010 to 2018, Lewis preached that “great schools with great teachers is the most important civil right of our generation.” She inspired teachers and their allies to carry their ideals onto picket lines and into the political arena. They embraced the cause so passionately that, though Lewis has died at age 67 after a long battle with brain cancer, the militant “Red for Ed” movement she championed
Carron Johnson, an instructional care aide in St Louis, Missouri, knows exactly how important her job is in an American school. She is currently working in a hybrid model of remote and in-person learning along with other teachers in the St Louis public schools district despite ongoing fears posed by the coronavirus pandemic that has shuttered many schools across the US and thrown the entire education system into chaos. “Our community depends on.
CPS will offer testing for all schools with in-person learning and 50% of those staffers each week.
Dr. Chris Colbert weighs in on COVID-19 vaccine demand
The testing plan in focused on equites as well and student and staff in areas that have been hardest hit by the pandemic will be prioritized.
CPS will be reporting the results publicly online.
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