Covid-19 News: All U.S. States Are Now Offering Vaccines to Teachers
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March 24, 2021, 7:47 a.m. ETMarch 24, 2021, 7:47 a.m. ET
The C.D.C. says vaccinated people may meet indoors in small, private groups but warns they still need masks in public. New York City public high schools are scheduled to reopen on March 22.
Here’s what you need to know:
A nurse administering a dose of the Moderna Covid-19 vaccine on Monday at a clinic for Catholic school educators in Los Angeles.Credit.Patrick T. Fallon/Agence France-Presse Getty Images
As of Monday, all K-12 educators nationwide are officially eligible to be vaccinated against Covid-19, though the situation is more straightforward in some states than others.
Los Angeles Schools Remain Closed and Families Wonder: How Much Longer?
Even amid signs of a deal with the teachers’ union, the district is still probably a month or more from resuming in-person learning.
Kahllid Al-Alim talks to his daughter Shamael, a high school senior, about her homework.Credit.Mark Abramson for The New York Times
Published March 8, 2021Updated March 12, 2021
It has been almost a year since the coronavirus pandemic virtually emptied public schools in Los Angeles and sent Shamael Al-Alim home to take classes from her bedroom.
She does not miss rising at 6 a.m. to catch a bus and a train to her high school. But there is so much that, at 17, she does miss: The prospect of an in-person prom and graduation. The history teacher who ran the social justice club. Pickup basketball in the gym after school and the coach “who made everybody feel safe there.” A real senior year.