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GOOD MORNING, MASSACHUSETTS.
BIDEN S BOOSTER SHOT The Covid-19 vaccine rollout in Massachusetts has been pretty slow compared to other states. Can President Joe Biden speed it up?
The new president made a big promise: 100 million vaccinations in the first 100 days of his term. But before he took office, Biden expressed concern that his Covid team won t meet that goal,
BPS announces tentative schedule for reopening additional school buildings
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Boston Public Schools superintendent Brenda Cassellius and Boston Teachers Union president Jessica Tang announced on Jan. 11 a new agreement as part of the Memorandum of Agreement between the union and the district to extend key health, safety and staffing protocols to the future reopening of all school buildings for the remainder of the school year.
These protocols and standards, which will be implemented system-wide, are an extension of those originally implemented through prior MOAs and applied to all 32 schools currently open. As BPS continues reopening, these safety measures already in place will be extended to any school reopening in the future.
DSA-aligned teachers unions’ “Day of Resistance”: a pathetic appeal to Biden and the Democrats
On Tuesday, an umbrella group of ostensibly “left” teachers unions and organizations known as “Demand Safe Schools” held a protest, which they billed as a “Day of Resistance.” The group includes the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) and various local unions tied to the DSA, including the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU), Oakland Education Association (OEA), Movement of Rank and File Educators (MORE) and the United Teachers Los Angeles (UTLA).
There is immense opposition of teachers, parents and students to the deadly reopening of the schools as the pandemic continues to rage. The “Day of Resistance,” however, has nothing to do with mobilizing teachers and broader sections of the working class against this homicidal policy, which is being spearheaded by Democratic governors and mayors in major urban areas, like Chicago, New York City, and California
Martinez ‘absolutely considering’ a mayoral bid Mayor Martin Walsh today warned that the rate of Covid-19 hospitalizations in Boston are reaching levels unseen since the pandemic’s peak surge last spring. The mayor and other city officials offered updates on the virus and related issues during a press briefing at City Hall, his first since he was nominated to be US Labor
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