A host of improvements are on the docket at Manzanita Public Charter School as $35 million in federal funds and $8 million in state grants were recently procured by the
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Thanks, Noozhawk, for the excellent webinar. The panel was impressive and I liked the fast pace of the conversation. Please do more of these.
Pat Young
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The Noozhawk webinar was very interesting and it was very helpful to hear from the medical panel and not just government officials. I appreciated the fact that they all acknowledged the shortcomings of the vaccine rollout, but I feel much more confident about our situation after hearing their candid assessment of the positive trends. Thank you for putting it on.
Melissa Edwards
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Thank you to Noozhawk publisher Bill Macfadyen for leading the panel discussion on the coronavirus vaccines. The webinar was very informative and I’m glad to hear that so many people participated in it. Noozhawk rocks!
Aside from the horrifying lead item in this week’s Best of Bill column, the ongoing COVID-19 crisis dominated the Top 5. It’s the first time in months that’s happened, but it reflects the pivotal period our community has entered with the frenzy of activity and expectations surrounding the vaccines.
In addition to our regular coverage of the coronavirus, Noozhawk managing editor Giana Magnoli has been asking readers to send in their specific vaccine questions, and she and her team have been diligently answering them.
They’ve been doing that for more than two months, and it’s been an extremely popular and valuable service. I’d call it solutions journalism at its most basic form.
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In other words, these findings suggest that the decision to close U.S. public primary schools in the early months of 2020 may very well be associated with a decrease in life expectancy for American children
that is greater than any loss of life the coronavirus pandemic might have brought.
So yes, I’m angry. Really angry. We know too much now to continue to support universal school closures at the primary level.
We must stop lying to ourselves and to our children. Elementary schools remain closed because adults couldn’t pull it together. Classrooms are not closed to protect children. They are closed because of a faulty thought process that promoted the idea that “closed elementary schools will protect the community” a thought process, by the way, that is not supported by current Science.