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<p><span>It is a pleasure to join the Economic Club of New York for this discussion.</span><a href="https://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/speech/brainard20210601a.htm#fn1" title="footnote 1"><span>1</span></a><a name="f1"></a><span> Consumer demand is strong, vaccine coverage is expanding, and pandemic-affected sectors are reopening in fits and starts. As was the pandemic shutdown with its ebbs and flows, the reopening is without precedent, and it is generating supply–demand mismatches at the sectoral level that are temporary in nature. Separating signal from noise in the high-frequency data may be challenging for a stretch. The supply–demand mismatches at the sectoral level are making it difficult to precisely assess inflationary developments and the amount of resource slack from month to month.</span></p>
Baltimore students who failed classes during the 2020-2021 school year will still pass on to the next grade level, the city's school board announced this week.
Parents should demand more.
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Another reason to hold off on celebrating is that in many places, huge percentages of students are opting out of in-person learning.
Last week Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, finally stated that schools should be fully open by fall. That assurance is too little and far too late. A year’s worth of ingrained risk aversion and hand-wringing by school leaders, teachers’ unions, and public health officials, fortified by a steady diet of fear-stoking media stories, provided plenty of reason for students to stay remote, to their own detriment.
Why has the return to in-person instruction been so slow? It’s less the threat of COVID which we might first expect than it is local attitudes toward the threat of the virus.
America Federation of Teachers president Randi Weingarten joins The Story to discuss the return to in-person school
American Federation of Teachers (AFT) president Randi Weingarten is facing criticism from parents and Republicans over a speech she gave in favor of fully reopening schools this fall.
Weingarten, and teachers unions generally, opposed returning to in-person learning for much of the pandemic. Weingarten s late rebranding as a proponent of reopening schools prompted a fresh round of criticism. Conditions have changed. We can and we must reopen schools in the fall for in-person teaching, learning and support. And we must keep them open fully and safely five days a week, Weingarten said in a speech Thursday.