Paul Woolverton and Brian Gordon
USA TODAY NETWORK
North Carolina teachers, other school workers and child care providers will start getting vaccinated against the COVID-19 disease on Feb. 24, Gov. Roy Cooper announced on Wednesday, and teachers are glad.
“Yes, it is excellent news!” said teacher Daniel Withrow, president of the Asheville City Association of Educators. “So many school staff are desperate to return to in-person learning, but are concerned for their health, the health of their students, and the health of their communities.”
So far, the vaccine has been largely limited to health care workers, long-term care residents and long-term care center staff, and people 65 and older. The expansion to teachers will significantly increase demand, Cooper said at a coronavirus news conference in Raleigh.
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Tiffany Kilgore, a Wayne County public school teacher, has had two surgeries since contracting COVID-19 in August.
A groundswell of parents across North Carolina are ready to relinquish their home-schooling roles and are pushing school districts that have yet to open their doors to get students in kindergarten through high school back into classrooms.
They’ve caught the ears of elected officials.
Gov. Roy Cooper, Catherine Truitt, the state Superintendent of Public Instruction, Eric Davis, chairman of the state Board of Education, and Mandy Cohen, secretary of the state Department of Health and Human Services, announced new guidance for the state’s 115 school districts on Tuesday, urging each to offer in-person instruction.
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