The union says more kids in the classroom means less room for social distancing.
“We are concerned about the health of our parents, of our students, and our teachers,” said John Moreno Escobar, a parent who has a son at Sawgrass Elementary School.
“Aside from fighting for teachers we also need to challenge the consensus that we should be sending more kids to school and sacrificing the need to social distance,” said Rocco Diaz, a senior at Fort Lauderdale High School.
Rocco admitted that even if the number of students in his classes doubled, there would still be plenty of physical distancing space.
The yellow school bus is going green as Miami-Dade starts transition to an electric fleet Linda Robertson, The Miami Herald
Jan. 15 A landmark decision by Miami-Dade County Public Schools to begin converting its noisy, pollutant-belching diesel buses into an electric fleet was driven by middle school student Holly Thorpe s science fair project. Her investigation yielded even more alarming conclusions than she expected, showing that carbon dioxide fumes inside buses were 10 times higher than limits recommended by the Environmental Protection Agency.
A year after she presented her findings to school board members and urged them to switch to zero-emissions buses, the district is taking the first step toward cleaner, healthier transport.
State Sen. Manny Díaz accused of inappropriate behavior as Hialeah-Miami Lakes teacher Colleen Wright and Ana Ceballos, The Miami Herald
Jan. 14 Prominent Miami state Sen. Manny Díaz Jr. is facing allegations of inappropriate behavior with former students accusations he denies and is threatening legal action against following social media posts and a broadcast by his accuser on Miami Spanish-language radio.
JennyLee Molina, a 2000 graduate of Hialeah-Miami Lakes Senior High when Díaz was a teacher there, accused Díaz of making inappropriate comments about drugs and clubbing to students, as well as on girls appearances, allegations that two other former students largely corroborated to the Miami Herald.
Miami-Dade Superintendent Alberto Carvalho explains how he was able to fully open all of his district's public schools, and keep them open, amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. CNN's Bianna Golodryga reports.