A member of the Los Angeles fire commission says he is being removed by Mayor Eric Garcetti at the request of the powerful firefighters union. Garcetti's spokesman and the union say that's not the case.
• Gaithersburg High School, 6 p.m.
During a school board meeting this week, MCPS Associate Superintendent James Koutsos said that, in alignment with county COVID-19 guidelines, face coverings will not be required at outdoor graduations for people fully vaccinated against COVID-19.
Fifth- and eighth-grade promotion ceremonies will be held virtually.
Rockville teacher wins MCPS Mark Mann award
Loretta Woods, the principal at Whetstone Elementary School in Rockville, was recently named the winner of MCPS’ annual Mark Mann Excellence and Harmony Award.
The award, established in 1991, is presented by the superintendent each year to honor an administrator who “has shown exceptional performance in promoting academic excellence, positive human relations, and community outreach,” according to school board documents.
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BOSTON The Leadership Fellows Program at Harvard Business School (HBS) is based on University Professor Michael Porter’s vision of developing a network of HBS graduates with cross-sector experience who are committed to addressing societal issues throughout their careers. The fellowship is a two-way commitment in which graduating students are offered once-in-a-lifetime opportunities to experience high-impact management positions in nonprofit and public sector organizations for one year at a competitive salary. At the same time, the hiring organizations leverage the experience, energy, and strategic and analytical skills of MBAs in roles that produce immediate results and build long-term capacity.
These stunts resulted in many public schools staying closed nine months longer than nearly all private schools, despite the science clearly depicting children are not vectors of the coronavirus.
Now, the progressive left and their allies in the media are trying to rewrite history in an all-out propaganda push after Randi Weingarten, the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) president, did an about-face last week saying public schools should fully reopen in the fall.
Really? What changed? Well, a scandal was uncovered.
Earlier this month, Americans for Public Trust, a conservative watchdog group, discovered numerous emails through FOIA requests showing the AFT colluded with the Biden administration’s Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to politicize the “science” to keep schools closed and kids stuck at home.
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As COVID-19 vaccines become increasingly available, employers
may consider requiring that employees be vaccinated prior to
resuming or continuing in-person work. Guidance from the Equal
Employment Opportunity Commission ( EEOC ) indicates that
employers may require employees to get a vaccine under equal
employment opportunity ( EEO ) laws as long as employers
make exceptions for employees with disabilities or religious
beliefs that prevent them from receiving the vaccine, but many
states such as New York (discussed herein) are contemplating more
employee-protective legislation. In the midst of this legal