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New: Why union leaders on the West Coast say their schools have been slower to reopen
One UTLA leader told me they take the CDC guidance "with a grain of salt." "For us, it didn’t work. It didn’t take into account the specific issues we’re facing in LA."
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Retweeted by HuffPostEducation New: GOP leaders are trying to paint teachers unions as villains, but a new poll shows that union members are largely aligned with Americans on school reopenings
Only 34% of AFT members say schools should be closed, 31% of Americans say the same
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Retweeted by HuffPostEducation Teachers say they most trust the CDC to make good decisions about when/if to reopen schools
They say they least trust parent groups like the PTA to make good decisions
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Retweeted by HuffPostEducation Educators' opinions on whether or not schools should be open seem to reflect that of Americans at large. 34 percent of teachers think schools should be online only. 31 percent of Americans think school should be online only.
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Retweeted by HuffPostEducation New: I got an early look at an internal AFT poll of its members.
A vast majority say they'd support a return to in-person learning but under a number of conditions, including vaccine prioritization and flexibility for at-risk teachers to work from home
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Retweeted by HuffPostEducation New: Teachers unions have come under a lot of fire lately, but a new HuffPost/YouGov poll suggests that the public at large thinks their actions are justified. More people than not support potential strikes huffpost.com/entry/teachers…
Retweeted by HuffPostEducation The GOP has tried to paint teachers unions as villains on school reopenings. A new HuffPost poll shows the public doesn't see it that way. Ppl are supportive of recent union actions
Still, the public is deeply divided on whether schools should reopen
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Retweeted by HuffPostEducation Here's what happened at Miguel Cardona's confirmation hearing: 1) warm reception from both dems and republicans 2) he emphasized on reopening schools 3) republican senators went after transgender athletes
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Retweeted by HuffPostEducation New: Betsy DeVos may no longer be Secretary of Education, but states are happily carrying out her agenda. More and more states -- pushed by the pandemic and Republican statehouse wins -- are pushing voucher programs
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Retweeted by HuffPostEducation New: Voucher bills are moving through state legislatures at a breakneck speed. Republicans have seized on frustration with public schools during COVID to push them.
A bill in Georgia would give children vouchers if their schools are not 100% in person
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Retweeted by HuffPostEducation New: Amid a year of unprecedented disruptions, parents are begging schools to please hold their children back a year huffpost.com/entry/children…
Retweeted by HuffPostEducation The 1776 Commission is actually what's taught in thousands of Christian schools around the country, many of which receive public funding through vouchers.
One textbook I analyzed described slaves as a "better investment than indentured servants."
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Retweeted by HuffPostEducation They characterize Nelson Mandela as a “marxist agitator” who helped drive South Africa to “radical affirmative action,” & say Satan hatched modern psychology.
Slavery is described in purely economic terms as a "better investment" than indentured servants
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Retweeted by HuffPostEducation NEW: Textbooks in thousands of K-12 schools echo the white Christian nationalism from last week's riots.
They teach that "globalists" are anti-Christian, Obama helped spur "race riots," and that Trump is the country's "fighter" for Christian values
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Retweeted by HuffPostEducation New: Teachers compare teaching about the Capitol riots to that of Columbine and 9/11.
One teacher describes the confusion of her Black students: "If 20 of us had done that, we all would have been dead." "Is this a KKK rally?"
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Retweeted by HuffPostEducation History teachers, how are you going to explain this?
Retweeted by HuffPostEducation New: Biden is expected to nominate Miguel Cardona, Connectict's top schools chief for Education Secretary.
Cardona is an uncontroversial pick who doesn't offend teachers unions or education reform groups. He's spent his career working in public schools
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Retweeted by HuffPostEducation Not handing in homework used to result in lower grades. Now, in some districts it results in a truancy letter home threatening fines and legal action
My dispatch on another complication of remote learning:
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Retweeted by HuffPostEducation 🚨New: They didn't turn in their homework during remote learning. Then their parents received threats of fines and court.
Now one child has regular panic attacks that he is going to fail and his family will face legal action huffpost.com/entry/truancy-…s
Retweeted by HuffPostEducation NEW: These kids didn't hand in their homework or turned their camera off for remote learning. Then, their school districts threatened their families with court & fines.
Strict, punitive truancy laws are bumping up against the realities of remote learning
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Retweeted by HuffPostEducation Amina's son is in METCO, a desegregation program that busses kids of color from Boston to affluent suburbs.
She enrolled in this program so he could compete on a level playing field. But during months off from school, other kids worked to get ahead
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Retweeted by HuffPostEducation New: Amina Scott's son has always been ahead or on grade level. This year, he was mysteriously behind his peers.
It's b/c some kids in his class had resources for tutoring and enrichment.
How COVID is widening disparities, even within the same classroom
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Retweeted by HuffPostEducation New: The U.S. Department of Education has started investigating COVID-19 related school discrimination, after HuffPost first reported these cases were on hold
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Retweeted by HuffPostEducation Among the names under consideration to be the next Education Secretary is Tim Shriver, a member of the Kennedy family who has long led the Special Olympics.
(Remember: the Trump administration repeatedly tried to cut funding for the Special Olympics)
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Retweeted by HuffPostEducation NEW: Lots of speculation about who will be the next Education Secretary, with labor vs. ed reform groups pushing their own picks. Tim Shriver of the Kennedy family has also thrown his hat into the ring and is currently being vetted
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Retweeted by HuffPostEducation New: The Education Department tells me that employees in the civil rights division are no longer allowed to recommend that schools implement anti-bias training. Employees tell me they were not aware of this
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Retweeted by HuffPostEducation 🚨NEW: During a national education civil rights emergency, the Edu Dept has been failing to address urgent issues of COVID-related discrimination
Employees say the dept is ignoring the problems that are currently harming students during the pandemic.huffpost.com/entry/betsy-de…p
Retweeted by HuffPostEducation NEW: During a pandemic that has turned schools upside down, the Education Dept has spent months failing to address complaints of urgent COVID discrimination in schools.
This & more in a deep dive into the last 4 years of civil rights under DeVos:
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Retweeted by HuffPostEducation New: With no federal aid in sight, schools are figuring out where they can cut, amid shelling out cash for PPE, technology.
"I cannot wait for federal funding to serve kids. The needs are immediate right now."
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Retweeted by HuffPostEducation NEW: An Ohio school has been assigning kids PragerU videos for class. The site has videos like 'the left ruins everything' & 'playing the black card'
Turns out, PragerU is amid a new push to get into K12 schools. They say 'so many' teachers have signed up
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Retweeted by HuffPostEducation Millennials got screwed. Here are all the ways we're setting Gen Z up for failure, too.
One report estimates that K-12 students in the U.S. already lost $2.8 trillion in future wages from school closures through September.
From @EmilyRPeck & me:
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Retweeted by HuffPostEducation “By ignoring underlying conditions, the demands of transgender supremacy marginalize our unique kids, especially those with autism and mental health diagnoses,” the new head of the Diversity and Inclusion committee recently said.
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Retweeted by HuffPostEducation NEW: The Department of Education's civil rights division has a new Diversity and Inclusion committee. Leaders appointed a longtime anti-LGBTQ activist to head it.
Employees say it makes the committee farcical
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Retweeted by HuffPostEducation We're looking to chat with high school students about how they're experiencing the death of RBG. Please reach out: [email protected]
She hands in homework while ringing up customers. She participates in Zoom class in between anxious asking patrons to wear masks. She never sees friends.
“I just wish I had some rest,” she says. “I’m tired most of the time.”
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Retweeted by HuffPostEducation NEW: Meet Daniela. At the end of last year she worked 40+ hours a week. She attended virtual HS. She paid a bulk of her family's bills.
She's part of a group of teens, who amid economic upheaval, are suddenly breadwinners.
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Retweeted by HuffPostEducation New: Experts tell me they're expecting a big increase in high school dropouts
“I think the really simple answer is we’re pretty nervous,” said an expert.
“I think there’s worry there’s some kids who have already dropped out," said another researcher.
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Retweeted by HuffPostEducation NEW: A HuffPost/YouGov poll has found that a majority of Americans would support teachers who go on strike over unsafe working conditions
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Retweeted by HuffPostEducation In the spring, some private schools thought they were facing financial ruin. Now, affluent parents are flocking in pursuit of in-person learning.
Another way in which COVID is exacerbating existing inequalities
From me & @EmilyRPeck
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Retweeted by HuffPostEducation Audrey Taito, a rising fourth-grader in Sacramento, California, can’t say exactly what she did to get her school email account blocked in the spring. She’s only 9. m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_5f…
Retweeted by HuffPostEducation One district told me that during in-school suspensions, children will congregate in a virtual classroom with other students facing the same punishment.
During out-of-school suspensions, children will likely have their own solitary virtual classroom
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Retweeted by HuffPostEducation NEW: Even if they're fully remote, schools are grappling with how to discipline children from afar.
Virtual suspensions are *a thing*
I spoke to a 9 y/o who had her email account briefly blocked. "I don’t want to go back to school bc they embarrass me."
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Retweeted by HuffPostEducation New: I spoke to teachers around the country who are already back in the classroom about how kids seem to be faring.
They all said kids seem happier than ever -- noticeably happy -- to be back at school
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Retweeted by HuffPostEducation UPDATE: After publication of our story, the school changed its policy. The school is now working with teachers to accommodate their individual situations. Their jobs are no longer in jeopardy. twitter.com/rklein90/statu…
Retweeted by HuffPostEducation NEW: A private school founded by the VP of Sinclair Broadcast told teachers they could come back in-person or lose their jobs.
Teachers think the message is coming directly from the Sinclair VP. It highlights the tough position of teachers w/o unions
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Retweeted by HuffPostEducation New: Randi Weingarten announced today that the AFT will support educator 'safety strikes' as a last resort.
The union's leadership has approved a resolution which says "nothing is off the table."
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Retweeted by HuffPostEducation NEW: A teen decided not to attend her HS graduation ceremony in-person, so the school cut her out of the ceremony.
The school's policy: attend in-person or don't get recognized, even during a global pandemic.
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Retweeted by HuffPostEducation New: Counties w/ high rates of lynching are now more likely to paddle students in school today, esp. Black students.
Each additional lynching in a state’s county increased the odds of corporal punishment happening to a Black student by 6%
Past is present
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Retweeted by HuffPostEducation Which is all to say, the past is present is present is present and none of this is accidental
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Retweeted by HuffPostEducation I traveled to Mississippi (pre-covid) to learn more about how this plays out in school.
One student described watching another getting paddled in front of the entire class, while kids jeered.
“She kind of laughed, but I think she wanted to cry.”
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