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Members of the Boston Teachers Union have overwhelmingly passed a vote of no confidence in Boston Public Schools superintendent Brenda Cassellius through a motion brought from the floor of a membership meeting.
The floor vote was affirmed by a 97.5% margin during an emergency membership meeting this evening. It comes on the heels of the superintendent’s refusal to formally extend equal and uniform safety provisions as those which have been in place at four BPS schools that are currently open, to the 28 additional schools slated to open on Monday morning.
Despite the lack of formalized and equal protections across schools, BTU educators also affirmed that those educators assigned to in-person teaching responsibilities would be reporting to buildings Monday morning.
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When Tropical Storm Zeta rolled through Georgia in October 2020, many residents woke to power outages, downed trees and other signs of storm damage. Despite the disruption and the storm Gwinnett County Public Schools stayed in session, with the district leveraging its remote learning capability to continue instruction.
Looking ahead, school system officials in Gwinnett say virtual learning could make the old-fashioned snow day obsolete. “Having the option of holding a digital learning day certainly does provide the district with some flexibility,” says Sloan Roach, executive director of communication and media relations for the district. Technology provides schools with the opportunity to make these decisions quicker and navigate challenges more efficiently.
Let public health expertise guide school reopenings
As long as schools are taking adequate safety precautions, superintendents should continue steadily reopening school systems.
By The Editorial BoardUpdated December 17, 2020, 4:00 a.m.
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A child holds a sign that reads, I can t learn from a screen, during a rally held in Boston Sunday afternoon to demand in-person services in safe spaces for students with high needs.Jessica Rinaldi/Globe Staff
As evidence mounts that schools can reopen without worsening the coronavirus pandemic â and that keeping them shut has stunted the educations of millions of children â Boston Public Schools superintendent Brenda Cassellius is working to restore more in-person education across the city. For her efforts, sheâs received furious pushback from the teachers union. But as long as schools are taking adequate safety precautions â as determined by public health officials â she should continue steadily reop