CDCâs teacher vaccine announcement pressures schools to reopen
CDCâs teacher vaccine announcement pressures schools to reopen
Despite the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidance that schools can reopen without teachers being vaccinated, many school systems and teachers unions insist that teachers, staff and students all must be vaccinated before returning to in-person learning.
LAFAYETTE, Calif. - There is mounting pressure to reopen classrooms as the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said teachers don’t need the vaccines for schools to reopen. However, many school systems and teachers’ unions insist educators, staff and students need to be vaccinated against COVID-19 before returning to the classroom.
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One of Biden’s biggest problems in his first 100 days comes from an unlikely place
The president wants to reopen the nation’s schools during the dawn of his term, but labor-strong California is putting such hopes in serious jeopardy.
Students in September hold signs in support of the Immanuel Schools decision to defy Fresno County s Covid-19 orders by opening its doors to in-person education. Across most of California, local officials have struggled to get kids back in the classroom because of resistance from teachers unions. | Craig Kohlruss/The Fresno Bee via AP
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. California Gov. Gavin Newsom had dreams last spring of opening classrooms in the most populous state by late summer, angering teachers who felt his plans were premature and unsafe.
Academic review questions benefits of California ethnic-studies curriculum
Academic review questions benefits of California ethnic-studies curriculum
The scholarly review comes as concerns continue to mount on the development of California’s Ethnic Studies curriculum, which has been accused of containing anti-Semitic material.
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(January 29, 2021 / JNS) Thirty-five academics have found serious methodological flaws and a significant lack of evidence in the research hailed as the rationale for developing California’s Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum, which has been accused of containing anti-Semitic material.
“We are deeply concerned with the misrepresentation of social-science research that is used to support claims of the benefits of ethnic studies courses in the Introduction and Overview to the Third Field Review of the Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum (ESMC),” wrote the academics to California State Sup