Philadelphia teachers union endorses bogus claims of school renovations as cover for reopening schools
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As the March 1 start date nears for the first phase of reopening for the School District of Philadelphia (SDP), the eighteenth largest in the country, the Philadelphia Federation of Teachers (PFT) is continuing to provide political cover for the school district’s reopening plans, worked out with the union behind closed doors.
The PFT, while posing as “concerned” about certain elements of the reopening plans, claims falsely that schools can be made safe through updates to decrepit school buildings, in particular, improved ventilation systems. In comments before the Pennsylvania House of Representatives’ Education Committee, PFT Legislative Representative Hillary Linardopoulos said, “Let’s be clear: our goal at [the PFT] has been, and will continue to be, to reopen buildings, be
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About 25,000 Philly educators have been invited to make a coronavirus vaccine appointment, and another 10,000 invites are going out soon, health officials said Tuesday.
Children s Hospital of Philadelphia began its vaccination clinic at one of its planned seven sites on Monday, administering about 500 shots to educators already reporting to work in-person. Six more clinics will be set up at schools in the coming weeks.
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to get alerts for local breaking news and weather. Our goal is to complete the two-dose vaccination series for all student-facing personnel in the city within 6 weeks, Dr. Ron Keren, CHOP s chief medical officer, told reporters in a news conference. And the city has assured us there will be enough vaccine to accomplish this goal within this time frame.
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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)
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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.
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PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) Teachers and staff of schools in Philadelphia arrived at the Roberts Center at Children s Hospital of Philadelphia for their first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine on Monday. It was fairly easy. All we had to do is go to the portal, fill out our name, they gave us the date, and we come right out, said Andre Bell, a teacher assistant in a Philadelphia charter school.
On Monday, Pre-k to second-grade students in the School District of Philadelphia were supposed to start back on a hybrid schedule.
Now, those students are supposed to start in the classroom on March 1.