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(NEW YORK) In 1971, Congress passed the Comprehensive Child Development Act, legislation that would have established a network of nationally funded, comprehensive child care centers.
But President Richard Nixon vetoed the legislation, and Congress has not passed anything similar in the five decades since.
Now 50 years later, President Joe Biden has proposed an ambitious legislative proposal his “American Families Plan” that would, among other things, create universal pre-K for 3- and 4-year-olds, cap how much low- and middle-income Americans must spend on child care, extend Affordable Care Act tax credits and expand paid leave.
Amid the global coronavirus pandemic that has put the nation’s child care crisis in the spotlight and pushed more than two million women out of the workforce, advocates of child care reform say they remain cautiously optimistic that this will be a time for real change for parents, and especially moms, in the United States.
President of Key Teachersâ Union Shares Plea: âSchools Must Be Openâ in Fall
About half the nationâs schools are not fully open despite rising vaccination levels, and teachersâ unions are getting much of the blame. Randi Weingarten hopes to carve a path forward.
Randi Weingarten plans to acknowledge in a speech that âprolonged isolation is harmfulâ to students and that online instruction has negatively affected learning. Credit.Ira Lupu for The New York Times
May 13, 2021, 5:00 a.m. ET
Randi Weingarten, president of the nationâs second-largest teachersâ union, plans to call on Thursday for a full reopening of the nationâs schools for the next academic year, saying: âThere is no doubt: Schools must be open. In person. Five days a week.â
President of key teachers union shares plea: âSchools must be openâ in fall
By Dana Goldstein New York Times,Updated May 13, 2021, 40 minutes ago
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Randi Weingarten, president of the nationâs second-largest teachers union, called on Thursday for a full reopening of the nationâs schools for the next academic year, saying, âThere is no doubt: Schools must be open. In person. Five days a week.â
Her remarks come with about half of the nationâs public schools not offering five days per week of in-person learning to all students and with many families uncertain about whether they will have the option for a more traditional schedule in the fall.
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