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It seems the legacy media is deliberately ignoring these grassroots protests by parents who are concerned, angered, and extremely tired of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), local school boards, and local teachers unions using their children as pawns. Parents have been rising up in great numbers, but if you watched any legacy media, you would barely know it.
On February 2, 2021, Los Angeles parents and children organized a Zoom Blackout day One LAUSD student talked about her reasons for standing up.
“At first it was kind of great because we didn’t have to go out at all and just do everything from home,” explained “Cicily,” a Los Angeles student in an interview with the Globe, granted with permission from her parents. “But then we all started noticing that it wasn’t really sticking as much. And then some people’s wi-fi cut out. And, you know, it’s super obvious that people are just looking at their phones most of the time. It’s not work
Sunburn â The morning read of whatâs hot in Florida politics â 5.21.21
Good Friday morning.
Ella Joyce has a horse show today, so we’re getting out on the road. Here are a handful of items on my radar:
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Media bias on full-display with Capitol Press Corps Rebekah Jones love: They never miss a chance to report on Jones, if itâs positive. But when someone offers a counternarrative, itâs crickets. Worse, the Tally crew was silent when
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Winners and Losers, Rounders-style: Consider this my work of art. Winners and Losers in the Special Session are easy. Tying them to gifs from Rounders, the Texas Hold âem movie classic with
The chief executive of Palm Beach County’s public schools is moving again to replace his second-in-command and reorganize the school district’s upper ranks, nearly a year after his first attempt was thwarted by school board members.
Schools Superintendent Donald Fennoy’s reorganization plan calls for transferring Deputy Superintendent Keith Oswald to a new, less influential position and installing Ed Tierney, a former principal and the school district’s current chief of staff, in the post.
If successful, the move would put Tierney in the district’s most powerful academic position, supervising all of the county’s principals.
Oswald would become the “chief of equity and wellness,” a new position overseeing four departments that handle mental health, safety and equity initiatives.
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The Miami Herald Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava ended the county’s last local mask rule, which required facial coverings in county-owned buildings. The announcement on May 13, 2021, followed new guidance from the CDC declaring fully vaccinated people no longer have to wear masks.
WLRN staff continues to add updates on testing and vaccination sites, executive orders and messages from government officials, and the latest news on COVID-19. You can find information on free food and food distributions here.
The dedicated website for the Florida Department of Health, including information about the numbers of cases, can be found here.
The dedicated website from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention can be found here.