KWestSeattle March 9, 2021 (10:57 am)
SPS and SEA have failed students once again. I continue to feel great about my decision to withdraw both my elementary age children for this school year.
Malea Williams March 10, 2021 (8:10 am)
I wish I would have done what you did. Sps has been a dumpster fire and I stuck around to be torched.
skeeter March 9, 2021 (11:04 am)
This is fantastic news!
underway bringing students back to the classroom safely, Seattle has a plan to continue
discussions in hope of someday starting the process of maybe talking about
bringing a few children back to the classroom.
I do not, in any way, blame rank and file teachers for this disaster. SPS teachers are working incredibly hard
SPS won t bring back youngest students, those with special education services, until end of March
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FILE A student wears a mask while building a marble racetrack in her Dinosaur pre-kindergarten class at Saint Vincent s Day Home in Oakland, Calif. Thursday, September 3, 2020.Jessica Christian/The Chronicle
Seattle students in pre-K and those receiving special education services won t be returning to school for in-person learning until at least the end of the month.
Seattle Public Schools and the Seattle Education Association, the teacher s union, are continuing to negotiate an agreement to bring back its youngest students and those enrolled in Special Education Intensive Service Pathways.
SPS won t bring back youngest students, those with special education services, until end of March msn.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from msn.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
trench collapses in December.
The fatal collapses for the month were reported in Georgia, Virginia, South Dakota, Michigan and California.
Those fatalities bring the year’s construction trench-collapse death toll to at least 21, which is the same as in 2019, according to reports compiled by Equipment World from the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration and news media. (Cumulative OSHA data on trench-collapse deaths have not been released for 2019 and 2020.)
Trench-collapse deaths among construction workers appear to be rising slightly since 2018. There were 17 fatalities that year being investigated by OSHA and state agencies, according to the NIOSH Science Blog.
A breakdown of construction trench fatalities between 2003 and 2020 shows that – outside of 2016, when there was a decade-high of 33 trench deaths – 2019 and 2020 are tied for the second-deadliest years since 2010.
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Several new employment laws have taken effect as of January 1, 2021 in both Oregon and Washington. Below is a brief overview of the new laws impacting employers in the Pacific Northwest.
Washington
Increased Minimum Salary Threshold for Exempt Employees
As of January 1, 2021, the state salary threshold for many exempt employees in Washington is higher than the federal salary threshold. The 2021 salary threshold for Washington employees classified as exempt pursuant to the executive, professional, and administrative exemptions is 1.5 times the state minimum wage for businesses with 50 or fewer employees ($821.40 per week or $42,712.80 annually) and 1.75 times the state minimum wage for businesses with 51 or more employees ($958.30 per week or $49,831.60 annually).