Gouveia says it s dangerous, pointing to people soliciting eligible seniors online and offering money to be their companions so they can get vaccinated, too. You re talking about getting into a car with someone you don t know, she said. Someone who is saying they will pay you to accompany you to the vaccination site.
There are also complaints that adding companions to the list pushes others further down including teachers.
In Boston Public Schools, there are 3,000 teachers working in person, and there have been more than 150 cases of COVID-19. The state should have followed the recommendation of the CDC to prioritize not just 65 and older folks, but also K-12 educators, said Jessica Tang, president of the Boston Teachers Union.
Updated Feb. 10 | Mike Antonucci’s Union Report column appears most Wednesdays; see the full archive. “Reopening America’s 98,000 public school buildings doesn’t happen with an all-caps tweet or an ultimatum from the president.” Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, in a July 19, 2020, column for The New York Times. […]
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From Tampa Bay, Florida, to Portland, Oregon, from Los Angeles to Boston, people took to the streets Jan.30-Feb 1. They organized car caravans, speakouts and dropped banners demanding that the government immediately cancel the rents and mortgages, house the homeless and stop evictions.
Actions took place in 30 cities as national and local eviction moratoriums have only paused millions of evictions, and a third of the population can’t pay their bills and are unable to catch up with the rent. An eviction crisis looms that will hit oppressed communities, already especially affected by the pandemic, the hardest. Meanwhile, big landlords are abusing loopholes and filing eviction lawsuits against families regardless of the moratoriums.
Walshâs departure leaves beleaguered schools still in the lurch
The acting mayor and the next mayor-elect will inherit a crisis in Boston Public Schools that demands urgent attention.
By The Editorial BoardUpdated February 1, 2021, 4:00 a.m.
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Margene Mills, a custodian at the Mather Elementary School in Dorchester, cleaned a plexiglass barrier on a teacher s desk.David L. Ryan/Globe Staff
As he departs for Washington, Mayor Marty Walsh leaves a public school system thatâs little improved from the one he inherited in 2014. Indeed, in some ways Boston has slid backward: Despite spending more per pupil than almost any other district in the state, Boston Public Schools has seen its graduation rates fall for the first time in a decade on Walshâs watch. Meanwhile, a third of the districtâs students attend subpar schools. The state, which said in an audit last year that âthe district does not have a clear, coherent, district-wide strategyâ
Massachusetts embarks on the next stage of its COVID-19 vaccination program on Wednesday, extending eligibility to people 75 and older, the population most devastated by the coronavirus, amid frustration over the pace and priority of distribution.