DCPS is returning to in-person learning Feb 1. Teachers will receive their first dose of the vaccine on Jan. 25, but the second dose can't be given until Feb. 8.
By Emily Zantow - The Washington Times - Tuesday, January 12, 2021
Unions with more than 48,000 educators and staff in the D.C. area are hosting a “National Day of Resistance” on Tuesday to urge regional officials to collaborate on reopening schools amid the pandemic.
“At the center of the mobilization is a core demand the unions and associations have united behind, calling for Maryland Governor Larry Hogan, Virginia Governor Ralph Northam and D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser to coordinate across school district boundaries for a single, cohesive plan on reopening schools in the region for remote and in-person instruction,” according to a press release from the Fairfax Education Association.
How D.C. and its teachers, with shifting plans and demands, failed to reopen schools
Perry Stein and Laura Meckler, The Washington Post
Jan. 2, 2021
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Chancellor Lewis Ferebee, left, and Mayor Muriel Bowser, a Democrat, right, tour Shepherd Elementary School in the District of Columbia on Nov. 10, 2020.Washington Post photo by Marvin Joseph
WASHINGTON - Online classes in the District of Columbia in spring had been a disaster. Thousands of students didn t have computers or reliable WiFi. Many were falling behind. So as spring gave way to summer, Mayor Muriel Bowser, a Democrat, was determined to open schools again.
By mid-July, she had a plan. But it depended on cooperation of the teachers, and their union responded with protests.
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On Tuesday afternoon, D.C. Council Chairman
Phil Mendelson announced his committee assignments for Council Period 24, which begins in January 2021. The Council will vote on the chairman’s proposal during their organizational meeting early next year.
One of the most notable changes is Mendelson’s elimination of the standalone Committee on Education. For the past two years, Mendelson shared oversight of education in D.C. with departing At-Large Councilmember
David Grosso. Now Mendelson’s Committee of the Whole, which includes all 13 members, will have jurisdiction over education matters.
Washington City Paper What the Council Passed in Its Final Legislative Session MPD to no longer cooperate with ICE, a ban on some non-competes, criminal justice reform, and more.
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D.C. agencies will no longer be able to cooperate with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), as the Metropolitan Police Department and Department of Corrections have in the past. Nor will most employers be able to use non-compete clauses in employment agreements and workplace policies, which are occasionally used in the hospitalityindustry. The Cou