"New York State should not require school districts to offer remote learning moving forward and teachers should not be expected or required to teach in-person and remote students at the same time. It isn’t good teaching practice and it must end at the end of this school year."
The best laid plans of a multi-billion dollar sports league with effectively unlimited resources has made it a week before an outbreak.
Now consider large, underesourced public school systems. Or, good God, *college dorms* this fall
I am puzzled. If Congress and the Administration can agree to give trillions to corporations, big banks, airlines, and 600,000 others, why can’t they agree to appropriate $500 billion to open schools safely, in accordance with science? What about the children? and their teachers?
Thank you to the women who make up 77% of frontline healthcare workers in the US.
Many of us owe our lives to the heroic work being done by millions of women.
They define #NewYorkTough.
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Remember when they said we need state tests & report cards because otherwise teachers & principals would slack off?
Well, testing & state report cards are canceled and all I see are teachers & principals working harder than ever before.
Let’s trust our professionals.
You may have seen graphs that look like this. It shows how far behind Italy we are tracking in days & how our trajectory compares. The US and every country that hasn’t taken better preventive measures like S Korea & Japan is directly on course, lagging 2 weeks behind. 3/
COVID-19 Prep Update- March 14:
Last night I was on with state & local officials around the US well into the night. By March 23 many of our largest cities & hospitals are on course to be overrun with cases.
I am going to prepare a memo for them. I will share highlights here.1/
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