New research on school superintendent turnover rates reveals that divisive political issues are contributing to the problem of instability among school leadership across the US.
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thank you. christine romans joins me now. kids have parents, romans and that s what this is about. reporter: an important development for parents to get back to normal. we need two things for a post-covid economy. covid vaccines for kids. one thing holding back jobs recovery is parents who aren t going back to work because they are caring for their kids in a pandemic. schools are mostly open this fall thankfully in person. many parents are still concerned about outbreaks among unvaccinated children and school disruption. outside of schools, there is a child care crisis. the typical worker works $12 an hour. they have quit in droves. the pandemic puts their health a lot risk going to work, and the remaining child care workers we have are simply burned out. without reliable child care for children, women in particular are in a bind.
recent study from the cdc that showed when a teacher was actually infected and not wearing a mask, that that teacher, in fact, infected half of the class. so we see across the country when masks are being worn, the incidents of spread of covid-19, masks do work. there are differences in masks quality of masks, the better the fit. the more effective it s going it be for your child. i want to put an exclamation point on that if i could. what we are seeing across the country in realtime in places where mitigation strategies are not taken as seriously, there is more school disruption and there are higher number of students in emergency rooms so they do work. bret: okay, well, here is carla, she is a grandmother. take a listen. fidgety in school. they are not going to keep it in their. even aconsults do that i can t