The Omicron surge has caused COVID infections to skyrocket at the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) system. Infections are at all-time highs, but management is doing much less than they were at the beginning of the pandemic. Their attitude is that with 97% of workers...
The first few months of this school year were exhausting and demoralizing for educators, as staffing shortages and the COVID Delta variant impacted our schools. The politicians at all levels pushed for schools to reopen, proclaiming that this was vital for students’...
This report is from the Baltimore County Public Schools system, which is suburban and separate from the public schools in the city of Baltimore. After almost two years stuck in the middle of pandemic politics, teachers and students are still struggling to have their...
I am an elementary school teacher in Oakland Unified School District (OUSD). We have been in school for 12 weeks and since there has not yet been a serious outbreak, people within our community have become somewhat complacent to the situation at hand. It’s...
It is now almost the middle of October, and we’ve been back at school since the beginning of August. The Oakland School District had the entire summer to prepare for our return in the middle of a pandemic, but little was done to guarantee the safety of students and...
