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Brooke Williams, president of Jefferson County Education Association, speaks at a teacher protest outside the Jefferson County School District headquarters Wednesday. Teachers are asking the district to postpone in-person learning plans over COVID-19 safety concerns.
Teachers in the Jefferson County School District said Wednesday that they are concerned about the district’s plan to educate elementary students in-person. The district plans to begin returning students to school buildings on Jan. 19 and will resume remote learning only if the district moves to the most severe level on Colorado’s COVID-19 dial framework.
“School health and safety is community health and safety,” said Brooke Williams, president of the Jefferson County Education Association, the Jeffco Schools teachers union. “Schools do not operate in a bubble.” Williams led a protest of several dozen teachers outside Jefferson County School District headquarters Wednesday.