With about a month to go until the start of the new school year, the battle lines are being drawn over whether US students will return to campuses or continue online schooling. The stakes being ant…
is not an option for the Aug. 18 start of the new semester.
Randi Weingarten, the president of the American Federation of Teachers, echoed that sentiment, saying, there’s “no way” schools across the country could reopen this fall because of a lack of federal funding. “There’s no way that you’re going to have full-time schools for all the kids and all the teachers the way we used to have it,” Weingarten said on New York’s WABC radio station on Sunday. “Once we have a vaccine, I hope we can get back to that.”“Because it’s a promise of the American people, to students and their families, and we want to make sure that promise is followed through on,” she said.
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