Senator Ben Sasse, tapped to be the next president of the University of Florida, traveled to the campus to build trust and assuage concerns. The visit ended with protests and a forum cut short.
Florida teacher dies while battling COVID-19
Last Friday, Carol Zuckerman, a 56-year-old teacher who taught at a school in Broward County, Florida, died while battling COVID-19. According to the latest statistics, there have been over two million confirmed infections and 32,000 confirmed deaths from the virus in Florida. More than 82,000 cases have been reported in K-12 schools, a number that has doubled since the beginning of 2021.
Zuckerman was a single mother of a 10-year-old daughter named Lacey, and taught first grade at Aventura Waterways K-8 Center. Her brother, Charles, said that no one knows where she contracted the virus, but her school had resumed in-person learning under the dictates of Florida’s Republican Governor Ron DeSantis and it is entirely possible she contracted the virus at work.