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How many Alabama teachers are getting COVID vaccinations?
Updated Mar 09, 2021;
Posted Mar 09, 2021
Baldwin County School Superintendent Eddie Tyler receives his COVID-19 vaccine during a school-hosted clinic in conjunction with USA Health in February 2021. (photo supplied by Baldwin County Public Schools).
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More than 2,200 teachers, principals, counselors, custodians, bus drivers and other staff in the Baldwin County School System loaded into buses and were taken to the Robertsdale Coliseum on Friday to receive their second shot of the Pfizer BioNTech vaccine.
Superintendent Eddie Tyler, among those vaccinated, believes around 3,000 of the district’s approximately 4,000 employees have been vaccinated against the novel coronavirus since educators became eligible for shots on February 8.
For some Alabama schools, it’s home before and after the holidays as COVID cases surge
Updated Dec 11, 2020;
Posted Dec 10, 2020
Alabama State Superintendent Eric Mackey speaks to superintendents at meeting on Aug. 28, 2019, in Montgomery, Ala. Mackey has deferred to local school systems when it comes to making decisions on whether to host in-person school or remote education during the coronavirus pandemic.
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But for Jefferson County, the schedule remains the same.
Other districts, such as Hoover and Tuscaloosa city schools, will return with staggered scheduling in which some students return to in-class instruction before others. Other school districts, such as Calhoun County Schools, will be going to a virtual-only schedule next week. And in Scottsboro where a New York Times piece recently listed the Jackson County community as among the highest for week-to-week growth in coronavirus infections the city school system is transitioning to virtual-only educ