#Open up all NYC classrooms!

#Open up all NYC classrooms!

“#Open up all NYC classrooms!” Once again, the science proves: Schools pose minimal risk in the spread of COVID-19. The CDC says it. Experts say it.  And New York shows it, with just three city schools closed to hybrid in-person learning, out of an abundance of caution, because someone tested positive at the facilities. The…

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#DOE must provide NYC charter schools with COVID-19 tests

#DOE must provide NYC charter schools with COVID-19 tests

“#DOE must provide NYC charter schools with COVID-19 tests” The Department of Education must begin administering COVID-19 tests in charter schools, a court ruled Friday. New York County Supreme Court Justice Frank Nervo determined that the DOE “shall provide and administer COVID-19 screening tests to students and staff of charter schools upon identical terms as…

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#Letters to the Editor— Feb. 20, 2021

#Letters to the Editor— Feb. 20, 2021

“#Letters to the Editor— Feb. 20, 2021” The Issue: Literature sent to parents by an East Village school asking them to “reflect on their whiteness.” The dissemination of racist propaganda at East Side Community HS is beyond reprehensible (“Woke note to parents,” Feb. 17). I am both sickened and outraged. Meanwhile, many New York City…

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#Commentary across the spectrum is demanding schools reopen

#Commentary across the spectrum is demanding schools reopen

“#Commentary across the spectrum is demanding schools reopen” Kids have suffered grievously over the past year: lousy remote “learning,” lost routines and social lives, spiraling mental illness. Most of the blame lies with teachers ­unions that refuse to return to the classroom, despite all evidence that schools aren’t COVID spreaders, and politicians beholden to Big ­Labor,…

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#Get schools open, President Biden

#Get schools open, President Biden

“#Get schools open, President Biden” America needs its schools reopened, but President Biden and his team are making it harder even as they pretend otherwise. Vice President Kamala Harris further muddied the issue Wednesday on “The Today Show,” refusing to say if teacher vaccinations need to come first. Time and again, she dodged host Savannah…

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#Lori Lightfoot talks truth on teacher-union entitlement

#Lori Lightfoot talks truth on teacher-union entitlement

“#Lori Lightfoot talks truth on teacher-union entitlement” Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot is a perfect progressive — who just let loose on the Chicago Teachers Union over its resistance to reopening schools and other issues. After cutting a deal with the CTU to finally reopen elementary and middle schools, Lightfoot told the The New York Times…

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#NYC public school asks parents to ‘reflect’ on their ‘whiteness’

#NYC public school asks parents to ‘reflect’ on their ‘whiteness’

“#NYC public school asks parents to ‘reflect’ on their ‘whiteness’” A city public school principal is asking parents to “reflect” on their “whiteness” — passing out literature that extols “white traitors’’ who “dismantle institutions,” education officials confirmed to The Post on Tuesday. The “woke’’ offensive at the East Side Community School in Manhattan features a…

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#Oregon promotes teacher program to subtract ‘racism in mathematics’

#Oregon promotes teacher program to subtract ‘racism in mathematics’

“#Oregon promotes teacher program to subtract ‘racism in mathematics’” The Oregon Department of Education (ODE) recently encouraged teachers to register for training that encourages “ethnomathematics” and argues, among other things, that White supremacy manifests itself in the focus on finding the right answer. An ODE newsletter sent last week advertises a Feb. 21 “Pathway to…

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