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Tacoma Public Schools to offer full-time in-person learning this fall
The district says they’re confident they’ll be able to keep students safe under current state guidelines. Students will have the option to continue online schooling. Author: Lionel Donovan (KING) Updated: 9:04 PM PDT May 6, 2021
TACOMA, Wash. Tacoma Public Schools announced it will be ready to bring students back into the building full-time by the new school year, and the district said they’re confident they’ll be able to keep students safe under current state guidelines.
School faculty are going through the process of figuring out what classroom sizes will look like under state guidelines, which now allow for just three feet of social distance in some circumstances.
Plan to prioritize Washington educators for vaccines leaves other workers frustrated
Biden s call for all school staff to be vaccinated by the end of March earned a mixed reaction from workers in other industries, who feel left behind. Author: Lionel Donovan (KING) Updated: 9:44 PM PST March 3, 2021
TACOMA, Wash. Teachers and school staff across Washington are setting up appointments to receive the COVID-19 vaccine after yesterday’s announcement by President Joe Biden that all school faculty must be prioritized. Here in Washington, that means a quarter-million people working in education and childcare will be prioritized.
“It really lightens that fear of getting back into the classrooms,” said Shannon Ergun, president of the Tacoma Education Association.
Plan to prioritize Washington educators for vaccines leaves other workers frustrated Lionel Donovan
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Teachers and school staff across Washington are setting up appointments to receive the COVID-19 vaccine after yesterday’s announcement by President Joe Biden that all school faculty must be prioritized. Here in Washington, that means a quarter-million people working in education and childcare will be prioritized.
Plan to prioritize school staff for vaccines leaves other workers frustrated
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“It really lightens that fear of getting back into the classrooms,” said Shannon Ergun, president of the Tacoma Education Association.
But the news isn’t being received so well by workers in other industries.
Resistance builds to school reopenings in Seattle-Tacoma metro region
Major districts in the Seattle metro region are beginning to phase in students for in-person instruction throughout the next month. These plans are being implemented as part of the Biden administration’s drive to reopen all US schools by the end of April, which is supported at every level of government in order to maximize the production of profits in the broader economy.
On February 16, Washington’s Democratic Governor Jay Inslee encouraged school districts to reopen on the basis of the new politically-motivated CDC guidelines which falsely state that schools can operate safely without teacher vaccinations and at “any level of community transmission.”