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>> it may be thousands of miles away, but my hometown is just one part of rural ireland being transformed by the war in ukraine. hello. how are you? what's going on? how are you? a little bit. see, i was over there. >> six weeks ago, we were a school of 103 people. seven teachers. we arrived after saint patrick's weekend to a 50% increase in our school population. where today six weeks later we have an enrollment of 155 students and 10 teachers. ♪ but a population of five million people, they have taken in 25,000 ukrainians fleeing the war. hundreds have come here and everyone is involved in...

Had 800 absences in the last week. that's students and staff or 3% of the school population which gets to be difficult particularly with individual classes with double digit absences. they manage to keep the doors open and the classes going but elsewhere is more difficult. in oakland and san francisco where teachers are concerned about the protections in the school districts the teachers sage sickouts in san francisco. they staged a sickout that left about 20% of the staff gone last week as you see the disruptions nationwide and we'll get to in a moment. but in san francisco that 20% teachers ...

Public health background to be able to determine that. but i listened to your previous guests like dr. hill this morning, talking about how important it is to focus on what does the local data tell us. what does the vaccination rate look like? what does the positivity rate look like? and when we compare our community, the broader metrics around the state, i think we're in a pretty good place to find that balance. certainly, you know, students and staff are encouraged to continue to wear masks if they wish. but we're getting much closer to a place in our data that says that should be optional. ...

To be very safe for our local districts to make up their decision, you know, urban communities may feel differently than suburban communities or communities that have more vaccination rates in that school population than others. we're going to give that flexibility and our department of health is going to provide the recommendations based on the science and based on the data that we have available in the state. as i said, i think we've done the right thing for rhode island. we're also doing the same thing as you said earlier, we were one of the few states that had some form of mask protocol in...

Covid-19 case numbers and at school district were slight compared to school population. look at his take. >> shutting down an entire school system of kids that have already struggled with distance learning for nearly a year, it is just outrageous and wrong. >> parents through that school boards will continue with virtual learning as a remedy for staffing issues. >> there is very little spread within schools. we saw a huge amount of harm to kids, emotionally with learning loss. none of that has been remedied. >> alternatively, the school district in mississippi is not relied on virtual learning...