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SE Pa counties frustrated with vaccine distribution, seek transparency from state officials
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SE Pa counties frustrated with vaccine distribution, seek transparency from state officials
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County officials and state legislators from the region spoke with Pennsylvania Acting Secretary of Health Alison Beam and other top state officials Sunday to discuss the amount of COVID-19 vaccine doses provided to Bucks, Chester, Delaware and Montgomery counties.
The virutal meeting took place after an analysis by the Philadelphia Inquirer found Bucks, Chester, Delaware and Montgomery counties were receiving less doses of vaccine per capita than many smaller and more rural counties. Bucks County, which is the fourth largest by population, ranked 34 out of 66 counties in the state in doses received per population. The 67th county, Philadelphia, receives its vaccinates separate from the rest of the state due to its size.
Theyâre even less so during a pandemic.
Local school officials this week expressed frustration over the news that theyâll have to administer federally mandated, high-stakes tests during a year beset by sickness, quarantines, intermittent shifts to remote learning and potentially great learning loss.
âSimply put, these narrowly-focused, standardized assessments are just not that important right now after everything our students and staff have already endured,â Ephrata Area School District Superintendent Brian Troop said.
The U.S. Department of Education on Monday announced it would not be waiving the federal standardized test requirement as it did last year, despite social distancing, remote learning and student and staff quarantines still wreaking havoc on the nationâs schools due to the coronavirus pandemic. Instead, the department issued guidance to states, allowing them to either extend the testing window to the summer or fall, shorten the tests or admi
New federal COVID-19 relief funding will bring nearly $80 million to Berks County school districts.
During a media briefing Friday, Pennsylvania Acting Secretary of Education Noe Ortega announced the state had received $2.2 billion for education as part of the federal government s second coronavirus relief package. No doubt, the level of need by our schools is great, Ortega said.
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Because of that need, he said, Gov. Tom Wolf and department leadership have decided to distribute the entire $2.2 billion directly to school entities. All schools have been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, and I commend school communities for rising to the challenge to combat the toll it has taken, Wolf said in a statement released Friday afternoon. This extra funding is critical to help schools meet the unique needs of educating students at this time while keeping school buildings safe when students return to the classroom.
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