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HARRISBURG, Pa., Jan. 19, 2021 /PRNewswire/ The Pennsylvania AFL-CIO Executive Council, President Rick Bloomingdale, Secretary-Treasurer Frank Snyder, and our Vice Presidents released the following statement on the passing of Ted Kirsch, former President of AFT-PA and Vice President of the Pennsylvania AFL-CIO: Pennsylvania s Labor Movement mourns the loss of our union brother and Labor Leader Ted Kirsch. Ted joined our executive council in 1988 and served as vice president for 31 years, retiring in 2019. In his 17 years as President of the Philadelphia Federation of Teachers and 12 years as President of the American Federation of Teachers – Pennsylvania, he led educators across the Commonwealth in the fight for their students and their workplaces. Throughout his life, Ted held a deep solidarity with union brothers and sisters in the Histadrut, Israel s General Federation of Labor, and the Israeli people.
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Rethinking everything about how the board does business, including long-held practices, is the impetus for the board’s new “goals and guardrails” initiative that was announced last month.
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With one COVID-19 vaccine now in emergency use and potentially more to follow Pennsylvania’s weary teachers, parents, and students can see a path back towards normalcy.
A vaccine, if effective, could make in-person schooling substantially safer and lead to thousands of children reentering classrooms for the first time since mid-March.
But that hope is far from certainty. There are many unanswered questions about timing, compliance, and safety.
Keystone Crossroads canvassed experts to better understand what the latest vaccine news means for education.
Who is going to be vaccinated first?
School staff will get vaccinated before most students. That much is clear.
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