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Quarantine regulations are emerging around the world, but also in the United States. The virus is circulating in Gaza. Hong Kong researchers find that, in rare cases, a user may become infected again.
A Florida ruling ruled Monday that the state’s requirement that public schools open their study rooms for face-to-face instruction violates Florida statutes because it “arbitrarily ignores safety” and denies local school forums the ability to when students can safely return.
The resolution was a victory for the American Federation of Teachers, the second-largest teachers’ union in the country, and one of its affiliates, the Florida Education Association. Last month, unions sued Gov. Ron DeSantis and Education Commissioner Richard Corcoran at the country’s first such trial.
The state ordinance required school districts to give students the opportunity to return to the user school until August 31, or threatened to waste essential state funding. An exception was made only for Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach counties, which have been most affected by the coronavirus and plan to start the school year online.
“Districts don’t have a meaningful alternative,” Leon County Circuit Court Judge Charles W. Dodson wrote about the rest of the state’s schools. “If a school district chooses, that is, delaying the start of schools until it separately determines that it will do so for their county, it risks wasting state funds, even if each student receives an education.”
Later on Monday, the state appealed the decision, in a prompt suspension.
“This fight has been, and will continue to be, to give every parent, instructor and student an option, regardless of the educational choice they choose,” Corcoran said in a statement.
In Tampa, the state’s reopening order prevented the Hillsborough County School District from starting the school year with just 4 weeks of online education, as the school board wanted. Hillsborough’s board is expected to meet on Tuesday, although no vote is expected, a district spokeswoman said. Principal Addison Davis said after the resolution that the school’s formula continued to plan to begin the categories on August 31 with a selection of instruction on the user or online.
During a three-day hearing last week, unions presented testimony from public fitness experts and instructors involved about the threat of their fitness. One instructor said it would prevent exposure to the virus. Another, a tetraplegic, said he might not give up his job, although his doctor warned him that Covid-19 would threaten his life.
“In a pandemic, none of those things are wonderful victories, but it’s a relief to human life,” said Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers. “It is a repression of the recklessness of human life. It is a setback in politics that goes beyond the protection and science and well-being of communities.
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