Educators around the US gathered Monday in demonstrations addressing concerns of safe and equitable school environments amid the COVID-19 pandemic and the nationwide reckoning around racial justice after the killing of George Floyd.
, organized by a coalition of teachers unions, social justice organizations and the Democratic Socialists of America. They took place in a combination of socially distant rallies and car caravans.
Nina Hike, a high school chemistry teacher who works in the Chicago public school district, said she is nervous about her district’s plan for the new academic year, which she described as a hybrid model involving a combination of remote and in-person instruction. It's a plan teachers feel puts students and teachers at risk, and fails to take into account the challenges of equitably distributing resources to students in her district.
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