{"id":127228,"date":"2020-12-06T01:00:28","date_gmt":"2020-12-05T22:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/nyc-teachers-who-refuse-covid-19-test-will-be-off-payroll-doe\/"},"modified":"2020-12-06T01:00:28","modified_gmt":"2020-12-05T22:00:28","slug":"nyc-teachers-who-refuse-covid-19-test-will-be-off-payroll-doe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/nyc-teachers-who-refuse-covid-19-test-will-be-off-payroll-doe\/","title":{"rendered":"#NYC teachers who refuse COVID-19 test will be off payroll: DOE"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#NYC teachers who refuse COVID-19 test will be off payroll: DOE<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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Get tested \u2014 or get out.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The city Department of Education posted an internal rule Friday for members of the United Federation of Teachers, warning that those who refuse to be tested for COVID-19 in school will be put on leave and taken off the payroll.<\/p>\n

\u201cUFT members who don\u2019t consent to testing within one week of returning to their buildings will be placed on Leave Without Pay,\u201d says the rule, obtained by The Post.<\/p>\n

It added in reference to non-UFT school workers,\u00a0\u201cGuidance regarding other staff members who do not consent will be forthcoming.\u201d <\/p>\n

The staffers will not be allowed to submit COVID-19 test results from a private doctor or other health care provider, the DOE decreed.\u00a0<\/p>\n

After closing all schools on Nov. 18 for two and a half weeks due to rising coronavirus cases, Mayor de Blasio ordered a reopening Monday for pre-K, K-5 and students with disabilities \u2014 about 190,000 kids in all.\u00a0<\/p>\n

De Blasio also ordered random in-school testing of 20% of staff and students weekly. Previously, the testing was 10% to 20% monthly.<\/p>\n

Students who attend in-person classes also must be tested. Pre-K students are exempt, but kids in grades K to 5 have to bring parental consent forms on Monday. Those without parental consent or a valid excuse will be moved to all-remote instruction, de Blasio said.<\/p>\n

Under a revision issued Friday, parents of students with disabilities may get permission to take their children for testing by outside doctors, thus allowing the parents to be present. But the kids still have to get tested. <\/p>\n

The UFT \u2014 which represents nearly 200,000 members, including 75,000 teachers and 19,000 classroom aides \u2014 agreed to mandatory testing before schools reopened in late September.<\/p>\n

But some teachers have complained that the staff testing, as conducted before, was not\u00a0 mandatory or even random, but self-selective. When city testers visited, staffers were invited to take a test if they wanted one.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s ridiculous that they\u2019re informing us of a rule\u00a0we agreed to months ago,\u201d said Arthur Goldstein, a teacher and UFT leader at Francis Lewis HS in Queens.\u00a0\u201cIt\u2019s them who haven\u2019t enforced it.\u201d <\/p>\n

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People line up to get tested for COVID-19 in NYC.<\/figcaption>
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DOE spokeswoman Miranda Barbot said in a statement, \u201cTesting is a necessary component of keeping our schools safe and we developed this plan in conjunction with the teacher\u2019s union. There is no reason for staff to not participate in testing: it is quick and easy, and all school-based staff\u00a0will be required to participate.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

But Michael Kane, who formed the group \u201cNY Teachers for Choice,\u201d called the threat to withhold pay \u201cillegal and coercive.\u201d\u00a0The group has a 12-member steering committee of union members statewide, and a \u201crapidly growing\u201d email list of 100 teachers and parents, he said.<\/p>\n

Kane said some oppose mandatory testing for various reasons. He is against it because the city has refused to release all the contracts with laboratories that conduct and analyze the tests.<\/p>\n

NYC\u2019s Health+Hospitals Corp. has not released its\u00a0\u201cSpecimen Collection Agreement\u201d\u00a0 with Fulgent Genetics, the main laboratory, only a statement that officials said constitutes the agreement. The city has released agreements with two other labs involved in the testing. <\/p>\n

\u201cFulgent Genetics owns\u00a0a library of genetic information that it can use for\u00a0profit. I want to ensure that my specimen is protected from ending up in that library,\u201d Kane said.<\/p>\n

Both the DOE and Fulgent have denied that specimens collected in city schools will be used for anything other than COVID-19 testing.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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