Re-opening Schools in the era of COVID

I said it before and have been proven right again..President has shit to do with opening schools. Decision is made by BoE and local government.

Dont be fooled by headlines...

 

Actually the Federal government has the following to do with school openings:

• The federal government in the U.S. establishes the standards via the CDC for safe school openings.
• The federal government provides funding for PPE, equipment (HVAC) and other material to enable school re-openings.
• The federal education department can withhold other funding for school systems that do not follow guidelines (even if this is unlikely - it provides a possible enforcement hammer)

Of course the local and county school boards in states make the final decisions on re-opening schools and how to do. If they decide to re-open their schools in a manner not following federal guidelines then they open themselves up for protests, unwanted media attention, and possible legal action from parents & teachers.

 

All about the unions.

 

Seeing that 28 states don't have teacher unions and five outright ban unions --- it is hard to say it is all about the unions.

 

Post the states refusing to open up, and those that have some in-person classes. Then overlay the unions and those who ban them.

 

Florida has teacher unions , eh?

 

With absolutely zero power. Florida is a right-to-work state. This is an important clarification. When the teachers threatened to not go back, DeSantis basically told them to go F themselves and he'd replace them. Try that in, say, Chicago or New York. Watch what happens.

 

Yet Florida is an example of one of the many states where teachers have unions and students are back in classrooms.

 

Again, because the union has no power. In states where they do, school doesn't go back (generally). Thus, when the union can make/control the decision, they do.

Thus, it's all about the unions.

 

Let's take a look at a map of states which have students in the classroom currently.... Oh wait nearly all the states including ones with unions currently have some students in the classroom.

Where schools are reopening in the US
Updated February 11, 2021

According to data compiled by Education Week, most states are dealing with a wide array of approaches to kicking off the new school year. Click a state below to learn more about the state of K-12 schools reopening across the US.

https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2020/health/coronavirus-schools-reopening/