Teachers in at least five states have died from COVID-19 since the fall semester started, The Washington Post reported Thursday. At least six teachers across Iowa, Missouri, Mississippi, Oklahoma and South Carolina have died since early August as students return for the school year. It is unknown whether these teachers became infected at school, but several…
Unions are threatening to strike if classrooms reopen, but are also pushing to limit live remote teaching. Their demands will shape pandemic education.Angela Andrus, who teaches junior high, at a protest in Salt Lake City last week. Utah’s largest teachers' union has called for starting the school year online because of safety concerns.Credit...Rick Bowmer/Associated PressJuly…
The evening before Gov. Bill Lee and Tennessee Education Commissioner Penny Schwinn are expected to unveil the state's school reopening plan, dozens of teachers in Nashville and other areas of the state are calling on the governor to issue a statewide mask mandate and reconsider how schools reopen amid the coronavirus pandemic.During a Monday news…
U.S.|Grand Juror in Breonna Taylor Case Says Deliberations Were MisrepresentedThe Kentucky attorney general’s office said it would release the panel’s recordings after a grand juror contended in a court filing that its discussions were inaccurately characterized.Breonna Taylor's family and the lawyer Ben Crump, right, said the charges a Kentucky grand jury agreed upon in the…
(John Finney Photography/Moment/Getty Images) An abnormally bad season of weather may have had a significant impact on the death toll from both World War I and the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, according to new research, with many more lives being lost due to torrential rain and plummeting temperatures. Through a detailed analysis of an ice…