$635M Academic Recovery Plan; CDC Issues New School Guidelines

Education New Roundup. Issue #17

Markowicz: Don’t let Randi Weingarten whitewash her role in school closures (NY Post, July 11)

Weingarten should be held and remembered in odium: a craven, bureaucratic monster who did everything within her power to keep schools closed — science, and kids, be damned.

Teach history, not racism, in city classrooms (NY Post, July 11)

School staffers have ‘no confidence’ in principal after race flap (NY Post, July 10)

The C.D.C. Issues New School Guidance, With Emphasis on Full Reopening (New York Times, July 9)

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released new guidance on Friday urging schools to fully reopen in the fall, even if they cannot take all of the steps the agency recommends to curb the spread of the coronavirus — a major turn in a public health crisis in which childhood education has emerged as a political flash point.