Our committee demands the immediate closure of all schools and non-essential workplaces as part of a massive public health measure to stop the spread of COVID-19 and the highly infectious Omicron variant.
Alayna Thach, a 17-year-old senior at Olney Charter High School, passed away this week following a battle with COVID-19. A GoFundMe has been created to help with funeral costs.
Before catching COVID-19, Alayna Thach had circulated a petition at the school calling for outside learning and lunches to protect students from the deadly virus.
Philly school board unanimously rejects five new charter schools Maddie Hanna, Kristen A. Graham, The Philadelphia Inquirer
The Philadelphia school board unanimously denied five new charter schools Thursday night, continuing its streak of rejecting proposals that would expand the city’s sizable charter sector.
District officials cited flaws in all the proposals, which would have created more than 4,000 openings in new charters, and transferred millions of dollars from the district to the independently run schools.
“We are focused on high-quality education for all students across the city,” board member Mallory Fix Lopez said after the meeting. “When you have applications that just have glaring holes in them, it just doesn’t seem to match high standards” that the board expects, she said.
Gilbert Liss, 91, OB-GYN who delivered over 8,000 babies Gilbert Liss (Courtesy of Jon Liss)
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(Jewish Exponent via JTA) Dr. Gilbert Liss was an OB-GYN with a practice in Phoenixville, Pennsylvania. He delivered more than 8,000 babies in his career.
“When I close my eyes and think about my dad, I feel his genuine joy for seeing me, the hand squeeze or arm around me walking side by side, the elation of watching him revel in his grandchildren and the beauty of the true love affair he had with my mom,” his daughter Abbe Zuckerberg said in a statement.
Liss died Dec. 18 after a one-week illness with COVID-19 and a years-long struggle with Parkinson’s disease. He was 91.