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As the state reshuffles vaccine distribution and reopening rules, lawmakers green-light a hard-fought plan to bring students back into schools. What does it all mean for economic recovery?
Lawmakers, businesses and educators are scrambling to understand California’s latest surprise shift in pandemic strategy, directly tying economic reopening rules to getting more people in low-income communities vaccinated. The changes are technical involving health index rankings and vaccine targets and case rates required for businesses to reopen but the practical effect could be speeding up school and business reopenings.
As states like Texas abandon pandemic precautions altogether, Gov. Gavin Newsom is attempting to bounce back from California’s deadliest bout of the virus by incorporating equity in distributing limited vaccine supply in a state where white, affluent people have disproportionately received early doses. The shift also rankled one union-aligned lawmaker who
Afghan-American mom slams racist LA teachers union for asking her ethnicity when she pushed to reopen schools - after they said only white wealthy parents want children to return classrooms
Maryam Qudrat, who is of Afghan descent, says she received an email last month from the United Teachers Los Angeles union asking her ethnicity
Cecily Myart-Cruz, head of UTLA, this week slammed a reopening plan proposed Monday and argued that it was being driven largely by white wealthy parents
In January she posted to Facebook that union members have been stalked on social media by wealthy white and Middle Eastern parents about reopenings
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California teachers union president is blasted as a hypocrite as he s filmed dropping off his 2-year-old daughter at her private preschool for in-person lessons - despite leading the charge that it s UNSAFE to open public schools
Matt Meyer, president of the Berkeley Federation of Teachers, has fought for what he called the gold standard for educators in his union
He called for public schools in the district to remain closed until teachers are vaccinated, among a number of other requirements
However, parents of students in the district have no blasted him a hypocrite after he was filmed dropping off his daughter, 2, at her private pre-school