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After months and months of delaying the reopening of San Francisco schools out of concerns for teachers' safety, the SF Unified School District has decided they won't be forcing teachers or staff to be vaccinated against COVID.
Will Jew-Hatred Define a New America? Jul 24, 2021 Shaken by the brazenness of the recent antisemitic attacks, American Jews are questioning their security in the US. Eric Orgen is losing faith. His Judaism is on proud display as he wears his yarmulke during prayer, while on the go, and even when volunteering as an EMT in his Teaneck, N.J., community. But he is losing faith in the ability of America, which he calls “the greatest country,” to continue protecting his cherished freedom to visibly identify as a Jew without fear of aggression. It was Orgen’s traditional head covering that m...
Randi Weingarten, with megaphone, marches in a New York City rally, June 27, 2018. (Courtesy Professional Staff Congress/via JTA) JTA — Public school unions in the US are increasingly becoming a hotbed of Israel discourse, with the largest teachers’ union becoming the latest organized body to deliberate measures that censure Israel and support the Palestinian cause. At the National Education Association’s annual meeting held earlier this month (with US President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden, a longtime educator, in attendance), members planned to debate two items on Israel and th...
S.F. schools offer limited remote learning opportunities in the fall FacebookTwitterEmail Vaneni Vardanyan tries to reach for the laptop of her daughter, Vardeni Vardanyan, 8, a second-grader at Marshall Elementary School, to close it for the evening at their Mission Bay apartment in San Francisco, Calif. on Tuesday, Feb 2, 2021.Marlena Sloss/Special to The Chronicle San Francisco schools will offer “extremely limited” remote learning opportunities this fall. In a message sent to families Thursday evening, the district wrote that they are preparing for a full school reopening, 5 days a we...
America has faced great challenges during the past year and a half: the CCP virus, deep political division, and the aggression of communist China. How have our teachers’ unions responded to these challenges? During the pandemic, front-line workers, such as doctors, nurses, and other hospital workers, dealt directly with sick and contagious patients, while other front-line workers, such as grocery store clerks and truck drivers, kept the material necessities of life available for all citizens. Many other workers retreated to home to work at a distance, while yet others lost their jobs and h...