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Homeschooled students make up about 5% of the total student population in our state. As of October, that number is around 33,000 students who know their parents as their teacher. ....
Shadow seekers, billionaire tax, vaccines for cabbies: News from around our 50 states From USA TODAY Network and wire reports, USA TODAY Alabama Montgomery: The state on Monday launched an online portal for people to check their eligibility for COVID-19 vaccinations and make appointments. The Alabama Department of Public Health said the site at alcovidvaccine.gov will allow those eligible to make an appointment if shots are available in their county of choice. The portal also provides information about additional drive-thru and walk-in clinics being offered. Starting next Monday, Alabama will expand who is eligible for the vaccine to everyone 65 and older, educators, court officials, corrections officers, postal employees, grocery store workers, some manufacturing workers, public transit workers, agriculture employees, state legislators and constitutional officers. Currently, only people 75 and older, first responders, health care workers and long-term ....
Louisiana public schools slow to use federal coronavirus aid Follow Us Question of the Day A student cleans his hands with hand sanitizer as educators welcome students on the first day of class at Lake Harbor Middle School with coronavirus restrictions Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2020, in Mandeville, La. St. Tammany Parish schools are opening with . more > By - Associated Press - Tuesday, February 2, 2021 BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - Nine months after Louisiana’s public schools received $287 million in federal coronavirus aid to defray pandemic expenses, school systems still have not spent more than half that assistance even as they are slated to get another round of more than $1.1 billion. ....
Should Louisianaâs teachers be mandated to get the coronavirus vaccine? A COVID-19 vaccine is administered at a site for health care workers at Ritchie Valens Recreation Center, Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2021, in Pacoima, Calif. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez) (Source: Marcio Jose Sanchez) By Chris Rosato | January 25, 2021 at 10:02 PM CST - Updated January 26 at 9:19 PM BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - Mandating school faculty and staff to get the COVID-19 vaccine or risk losing their jobs has raised a few questions. Rather than mandating the vaccine, these superintendents say they will use other measures to get as many of their employees the vaccinated but have no plans to make it mandatory. ....
Should Louisianaâs teachers be mandated to get the coronavirus vaccine? Should Louisiana teachers be mandated to get the coronavirus vaccine? By Chris Rosato | January 25, 2021 at 10:02 PM CST - Updated January 26 at 9:19 PM BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - Mandating school faculty and staff to get the COVID-19 vaccine or risk losing their jobs has raised a few questions. Rather than mandating the vaccine, these superintendents say they will use other measures to get as many of their employees the vaccinated but have no plans to make it mandatory. âI think for me right now most importantly is this is a choice, I think we have to give teachers a choice, employees a choice. Iâll be honest I think if we came out and mandate it that every employee take this vaccine, that weâd lose employees. And already as you know we are hurting for teachers,â says West Baton Rouge Parish Superintendent Wes Watts. ....