Get our free mobile app Senator O'Scanlon said a Monmouth County campaign to vaccinate teachers continues and it's success so far is reason to support resuming in person classes in a couple weeks. “We’re proud of our role in this program that has vaccinated more than 2,100 educators in less than a month,” O’Scanlon (R-13) said in a statement. “Let’s be clear … overwhelming evidence indicates vaccinating teachers is not a scientific necessity to safely bring students back into the schools, but we know many of our instructors will feel more comfortable about returning to school once they have had the shots. It will help eliminate the staff shortages and extended quarantines that have prevented schools from returning to business as usual.”