Teachers Commended For Educating During Pandemic: Superintendent - Columbia, MD - The Howard County Public School System superintendent regularly receives emails from teachers and school staff who miss their students.
UpdatedFri, Feb 5, 2021 at 2:06 pm ET
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Some staff members have obtained the vaccine through other avenues. (Shutterstock)
HOWARD COUNTY, MD An estimated 1,550 COVID 19 vaccines have been made available to Howard County educators. Howard Community College opened its gymnasium Thursday solely to administer vaccines to teachers. The Howard County Health Department had 1,000 doses to give to educators Thursday and Friday.
Howard County Schools Superintendent Michael Martirano said in an email to staff that the additional doses of the vaccine for teachers is a glimmer of hope and wonderful news. The vaccines from the health department are anticipated to cover all school system staff who fall in the first two tiers of the district s four-tier system that abides by the county s Phase 1B plan. The first two tiers include school nurses, health assistants, custodians, food and nutrition staff, and other staff currently working in person. The 500 doses were allocated to edu
State Roundup: Morgan, Bowie, UMES get huge gifts; hospitals, nursing homes to get vaccines within 2 weeks
Morgan State University in snow.
MORGAN STATE GIVEN $40M; BOWIE, UMES TOO: The Daily Record reports that Morgan State University, Maryland’s preeminent public urban research university and the state’s largest historically Black college or university, Tuesday received a $40 million gift from noted venture philanthropist and author Mackenzie Scott, the largest single private donation in Morgan State’s history and the second largest gift to any public Maryland university.
The Baltimore Sun story on the gift not only interviewed the Morgan president, but lists Scott’s donations to two other Maryland HBCUs, including $25 million to Bowie State.
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State Superintendent Karen Salmon on Tuesday asked that teachers, school staff and child care professionals are prioritized alongside front-line health care workers as Maryland begins to distribute the COVID-19 vaccine.
In a letter to Dr. Jinlene Chan, the acting deputy secretary of public health services at the Maryland Department of Health, Salmon said the vaccine was critical for a return to full or hybrid instructional models. Prolonged school closures have resulted in our children experiencing diminished academic achievement and social-emotional distress,” Salmon said. “We care about all of our education and child care professionals, many of whom have continued to work on the frontline throughout the pandemic, and we are requesting that they be prioritized for the COVID-19 vaccine in the earliest stages of distribution to essential employees.”