Teachers in Salt Lake City School District pushed back with a rally Wednesday against efforts from the Legislature this session to control how and when they return to the classroom during the pandemic.
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Salt Lake City School District teachers hold signs as they attend a press conference in support of student and educator safety during the COVID-19 pandemic on the steps of the Capitol in Salt Lake City on Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2021. The Salt Lake Education Association held the event to raise awareness of the actions of lawmakers who worked to leverage the Salt Lake City School District with legislation designed to usurp local elected school board authority and punish the school district for choosing remote instruction until teachers were vaccinated or safety metrics were met.
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SALT LAKE CITY Jennifer Woznick, a fifth grade teacher at Meadowlark Elementary School, described to a cheering crowd of other teachers, students and parents what she called examples of recent bullying from Utah lawmakers. Is that the language used by a concerned elected official for the students of a city he is not even elected to represent? Or a bully? Woznick asked the crowd that had braved the frigid February cold to gather on the steps of Utah s Capitol on Wednesday. A bully! the crowd, organized by the Salt Lake Education Association, shouted back. The answer is obvious, she said.
Teacher COVID-19 vaccine rollouts delayed for some Utah school districts
Because of the state receiving fewer doses of the COVID-19 vaccine than expected, Utah teachers might get vaccinated later than they expected.
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SALT LAKE CITY â Utah teachers could get the COVID-19 vaccine later than they had originally planned, after the Utah Department of Health explained they haven t been receiving as many doses of the vaccine as they thought they would receive.
While school districts adjust plans, for Salt Lake City School District in particular, this could create a complicated situation for teachers.
Jenny Johnson, spokesperson for the Utah Department of Health, said vaccine shipments come in each week and they don t have a lot of notice on how many doses they are receiving.
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Far-left Democrat Andrew Yang filed formal paperwork on Dec. 23 that could see him run for mayor in New York City, according to the New York City Campaign Finance Board.
Yang ran for president in 2020 in a crowded field of more than 20 Democrats. He quit the race in February and endorsed former Vice President Joe Biden in March.
The 45-year-old ran on a promise to enact “universal basic income,” a wealth redistribution scheme in which the government would dole out $1,000 checks to each person in the United States aged 18 and older. Yang argued the scheme was necessary to counteract the advent of automation.