Prince William teacher alleges coronavirus violations, threatens School Board
A Prince William County school teacher threatened to blow the whistle if the division didn’t revert to all-virtual online learning.
An email to At-large School Board Chairman Dr. Babur Lateef, obtained by PLN through a Freedom of Information Act order, alleges 38 school employees at as many as 15 schools have noted problems with mitigation strategies put in place by the school division to protect employees against the coronavirus.
Staff who have tested positive for the virus are not allowed to talk about it with other employees and are not allowed to tell parents, alleges Brandie Provenzano, an English teacher at Battlefield High School near Haymarket and the author of the email.
Prince William Co. Public Schools plans to hold COVID-19 vaccine clinic for teachers Heather Graf (ABC7)
Prince William County Public Schools currently has more students back in the classroom than perhaps any other school district in the region, with more than 13,000 children in Pre-K through third grades now getting two days per week of in-person instruction.
Those are students whose parents chose the hybrid learning model.
The school district s current plan would then allow kids in 4th, 5th, 6th, and 9th grades whose parents chose the hybrid learning model to return to the classroom beginning February 25. Students in 7th, 8th, 10th, 11th, and 12th grades would follow on March 2.
Novant to vaccinate more teachers Prince William, Manassas, Manassas Park
Novant Health UVA Health System, Prince William County Public Schools, Manassas City Public Schools, and Manassas Park City Schools today announced that the health system would vaccinate employees of the three area public school districts.
Starting in February, Novant Health UVA Health System anticipates receiving a weekly allotment of 2,925 doses of the Pfizer BioNTech-COVID-19 vaccine from the Prince William Health District, based on an agreement reached on Jan. 22. This weekly allotment will supply vaccination clinics for employees of Manassas City Public Schools, Manassas Park City Schools, and any Prince William County Public Schools employees who were not vaccinated at earlier clinics.
Big internet outages hit East Coast, causing issues for Verizon, Zoom, Slack, Gmail
In this Aug. 11, 2019, file photo, an iPhone displays the Facebook app in New Orleans. Users across the northeast U.S. reported widespread internet outages Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2021. Verizon reported a fiber cut in Brooklyn via Twitter, although it s not clear if that issue is responsible for the entire outage. According to DownDetector and user reports on Twitter, the problem appears to extend from Washington to Boston, and is affecting internet and cloud providers as well as a number of Google services, Facebook and other major sites. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane, File)
Internet outages hit East Coast, causing problems for Verizon, Zoom, Slack, Gmail
Users reported trouble accessing apps that have become necessities to keep work-from-home life running smoothly during the coronavirus pandemic.
By RACHEL LERMANThe Washington Post
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People across the East Coast were having trouble accessing core Internet services Tuesday morning, just as they were logging on for work and school.
Users reported trouble loading Gmail, Slack and Zoom apps that have become necessities to keep work-from-home life running smoothly during the coronavirus pandemic. Downdetector, which tracks reports of outages, showed widespread issues with Verizon, Google, Zoom, YouTube, Slack, Amazon Web Services and others Tuesday just before noon.