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December 2017 Albuquerque Public Schools Teacher of the Month. Made possible by the APS Education Foundation and Pepsi, with special thanks to the Flying Star Cafe.
May 27, 2020 New York Times DeVos Demands Public Schools Share Pandemic Aid with Private Institutions
by Erica L. Green
July 13, 2020 The Associated Press and Boston Globe Betsy DeVos claims opening schools is not ‘in any way dangerous’ by Calvin Woodward, Hope Yen and Christopher Rugaber
July 13 2020 ABC News Education secretary faces backlash after demanding schools reopen full-time amid pandemic by Libby Cathey. She has not provided a specific plan despite insisting on reopening.
July 24 2020 ABC News Trump, DeVos downplay risks of reopening schools, claim children don't spur transmission: DeVos has falsely claimed the children are "stoppers" of COVID-19. by Libby Cathey
July 28, 2020 New York Times KEY DATA OF THE DAY AS TRUMP CALLED ON STATES TO REOPEN,
A FEDERAL REPORT URGED 21 ‘RED ZONE’ STATES TO IMPOSE MORE RESTRICTIONS.
July 28 2020 New York Times Trump defends sharing a dubious video and falsely says much of the
U.S. is ‘corona-free.’
July 29 2020 New York Times Why Is There No Consensus About Reopening Schools? by Kim Tingley
August 1 2020 New York Times Rich City Tykes Swell Schools in Hamptons and Hudson Valley
August 4 2020 New York Times When Covid Subsided, Israel Reopened Its Schools. It Didn’t Go Well
by Isabel Kershner and Pam Belluck
August 4 2020 Daily Kos Confused Trump can’t understand why so many Americans are dying
August 4 Columbia Journalism Review To School or not to School - A burning question by Charles Richardson
August 4, 2020 The Week The American leadership void by Ryan Cooper,
August 4, 2020 The Atlantic How the Pandemic Defeated America by Ed Yong
August 6 2020 New York Times Congress’s Ideological Divide Has Stymied Aid for Pandemic-Stricken Schools
by Luke Broadwater
Republicans and Democrats agree that schools need billions of dollars to reopen, but policy fights have the parties at loggerheads, with educators growing desperate.
August 7 2020 The New Yorker How Did I Catch the Coronavirus? by Carolyn Kormann
August 10 2020 New York Times
Republicans and Democrats agree that schools need billions of dollars to reopen, but policy fights have Congress at loggerheads, with educators growing desperate.
August 11, 2020 Axios At least 48 local public health leaders have quit or been fired during pandemic
by Orion Rummler
August 17 2020 The New Yorker The Woeful Inadequacy of School-Reopening Plans by Amy Davidson Sorkin