NY Times, August 24, 2020
Covid-19 Live Updates: Florida Judge Strikes Down Order Requiring
Schools to Physically Reopen
The 30-day notice period following a U.S. moratorium on evictions has
expired, leaving 12 million tenants at risk. Researchers in Hong Kong
find that in rare cases, a person can get reinfected.
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Representative Jenniffer González-Colón, Puerto Rico’s nonvoting
delegate to Congress, and several other officials, including the
island’s House speaker and Senate majority leader, tested positive for
the coronavirus, a week after a primary there drew politicians to many
indoor events.
ImageKatie Stallings, a second grade teacher, set up her classroom
before her students return to school at MacFarlane Park IB Elementary,
last week in Tampa, Fla.
Katie Stallings, a second grade teacher, set up her classroom before her
students return to school at MacFarlane Park IB Elementary, last week in
Tampa, Fla.Credit...Octavio Jones for The New York Times
A Florida judge ruled on Monday that the state’s requirement that public
schoolsopen their classrooms
<https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/19/us/coronavirus-schools-florida-local-control.html>for
in-person instruction violates the Florida constitution because it
“arbitrarily disregards safety” and denies local school boards the
ability to decide when students can safely return.
Theruling
<http://meyerandbrooks.com/documents/FEA%20v%20DeSantis/Order%20Granting%20Motion%20for%20Temporary%20Injunction.pdf>was
a victory for the American Federation of Teachers, the nation’s
second-largest teachers’ union, and one of its affiliates, the Florida
Education Association. The unions sued Gov. Ron DeSantis and Richard
Corcoran, the education commissioner, last month in the first lawsuit of
its kind in the country.
The state’s orderrequired
<https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/20/world/coronavirus-cases.html>that
school districts give students the option to go back to school in person
by Aug. 31 or risk losing crucial state funding. An exception was made
only for Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach counties, which have been
the hardest hit by the coronavirus and plan to start the school year online.
“The districts have no meaningful alternative,” Judge Charles W. Dodson
of the Leon County Circuit Court wrote of the rest of the state’s
schools. “If an individual school district chooses safety, that is,
delaying the start of schools until it individually determines it is
safe to do so for its county, it risks losing state funding, even though
every student is being taught.”
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Later Monday, the state filed an appeal to the ruling, prompting an
immediate stay.
“This fight has been, and will continue to be, about giving every
parent, every teacher and every student a choice, regardless of what
educational option they choose,” Mr. Corcoran said in a statement.
In Tampa, thestate’s reopening order
<http://www.fldoe.org/core/fileparse.php/19861/urlt/DOE-2020-EO-06.pdf>prevented
the Hillsborough County school district from starting the school year
with four weeks of online-only instruction, as the school board wanted
to do. The Hillsborough board is scheduled to meet on Tuesday, although
no vote is expected, a district spokeswoman said. The superintendent,
Addison Davis, said in a statement after the ruling that the school
system continued to plan to start classes on Aug. 31 with a choice of
in-person or online instruction.
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During a three-day hearing last week, the unions presented testimony
from public health experts and teachers concerned about risking their
health. One teacher said he would quit to avoid exposure to the virus.
Another, who is quadriplegic, said he could not afford to leave his job,
though his doctor had warned him that Covid-19 would threaten his life.
“In a pandemic, none of these things are great victories, but it is a
reprieve for human life,” said Randi Weingarten, the president of the
American Federation of Teachers. “It is a pushback on reckless disregard
of human life. It is a pushback on politics overtaking safety and the
science and the well-being of communities.”
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