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Few states are accurately tracking coronavirus vaccinations by race. Some aren’t at all. Lola Fadulu, Dan Keating © Sarah L. Voisin/The Washington Post A line of people waited outside the Model Cities Senior Wellness Center in D.C. to get a coronavirus vaccination on Tuesday. Most states are not publicly reporting racial data on people receiving coronavirus vaccines, despite disproportionate covid-19 death rates for Black and Hispanic people and rising concerns about who has access to — and is willing to take — the vaccine. Seven weeks after the first shots were ...

Chicago Teachers Union votes to refuse in-person classes and continue remote instruction Dawn Reiss CHICAGO —The Chicago Teachers Union voted to refuse in-person instruction Sunday and directed educators to work remotely starting Monday. The decision comes two weeks after the nation's third-largest school district called teachers and staff into classrooms and started to lock them out from remote work. Chicago Public Schools chief executive Janice Jackson had said the action would constitute an illegal strike. “I want to be clear, if teachers refuse to come to work on ...

Trump sowed divisions until the bitter end. It may have been his biggest success. Courtland Milloy In preparing a farewell to President Trump, I reviewed television footage of him sowing doubt about President Barack Obama’s nationality. “He doesn’t have a birth certificate,” Trump tells Fox News in March 2011. “He may have one, but there is something on that birth certificate — maybe religion, maybe it says he’s a Muslim; I don’t know.” The following month, Trump is still at it. “I have people that have been studying it, and they cannot believe what...

Montgomery County schools superintendent announces retirement Donna St. George The superintendent of Maryland’s largest school system announced his retirement Thursday, saying he would step down in June because of family difficulties, nearly five years after he arrived in suburban Montgomery County. Jack R. Smith, 63, told teachers and staff members in the 161,000-student system that he planned to join his wife, Gayle, in Maine, where she has been helping their daughter’s family care for a 2-year-old grandson who was born with a malformed heart. “Given his health...

Chicago teachers balk at reopening plan, face pay loss if they don’t return Dawn Reiss CHICAGO —Chicago Public Schools will reopen for some students Monday for the first time since last spring amid an escalating clash between city officials, who are threatening to withhold pay from teachers who do not show up, and the powerful Chicago Teachers Union, which contends that schools are not properly outfitted to combat the coronavirus. Teachers who don’t show up for work Monday “will be deemed absent without leave and will not be eligible for pay,” said Janice Jackso...