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Diabierna 14 Januari 2022
“Señor ta mi wardador, mi’n
tin falta di nada
Den cunucu di yerba berde e ta
ponemi sosega.
E ta hibami na awa trankil,
Pa mi bolbe haña forsa”.
Salmo: 23
Cu hopi tristesa, nos ta
participa fayecimento di nos
ser stima:
Sra. Denisia Samson-Tromp
Cariñosamente “Ma Den of tante Den”
*28-02-1922 - †06-01-2022
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“Señor ta mi wardador, mi’n tin
falta di nada
Den cunucu di yerba berde e ta
ponemi sosega.
E ta hibami na awa trankil,
Pa mi bolbe haña forsa”.
Salmo: 23
Nos ta anuncia fayecimento di:
Cecilia Helena Arends-Paesch
*01-04-1950 - †12-01-2022
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“Bou di alanan di Dios mi ta sigur”
Abo ku ta biba bou di amparo di
Altisimo, ta hospedá den sombra di
Dios Omnipotente, bisa Señor:
“Mi refugio, mi forti, mi Dios, den
kende mi ta
pone mi konfiansa”
Salmo 91:1-2
Cu dolor na nos curason, nos ta participa fayecimento di:
Dominico J. Figaroa
Mihor conoci como “Domico of Mico”
*04-08-1952 - †09-01-2022
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Democrats try to stamp out school closures as
Omicron surges
(AP) - When Chicago teachers voted to work
remotely last week to protest COVID-19 safety
protections in the nation’s third-largest school
district, Democratic Party officials leapt into
action.
Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker pushed for a quick end
to the job action and helped secure rapid tests to
entice teachers back to the classroom. Mayor Lori
Lightfoot said the teachers “abandoned their posts”
in “an illegal walkout.” White House press secretary
Jen Psaki stressed that students should be in school.
The standoff ended with a tentative agreement late
Monday. Nearly two years into a pandemic that said: ‘Enough. We’re done with all these.’”
shows no signs of waning, Democrats are speak-
ing out more forcefully against COVID-19 school That’s left some teachers feeling left out in the
closures, recognizing a rising anger among parents cold.
worried that their kids are falling behind. But in
doing so, Democrats risk angering some teachers John Coneglio, head of the Columbus, Ohio,
unions, which are advocating for more protections Education Association, said omicron has sick-
for educators as the omicron variant takes hold and ened so many teachers that students aren’t learn-
whose support helped get Democrats elected. ing in overcrowded classrooms. The union has
called for two weeks of remote learning. Still,
The political peril for Democrats became clear after none of the Democratic-voting city’s leaders has
their candidate lost the Virginia governor’s race in backed the union.
November to a Republican who focused on educa-
tion and slammed the prior year’s school closures. “I think their silence speaks,” Coneglio said.
Now, in what already promises to be a tough mid- “We’re hoping our local politicians see this is a
term election year, with frustrations mounting citywide problem, and that sticking your head
among their base over stalled voting and spending in the sand and saying, ‘It’s on you guys to solve
legislation, they may face real trouble over an issue this,’ isn’t fair.”
that directly affects Americans’ lives.
At the same time, Democrats are cognizant of
“When you tell a parent that their kid can’t be in the concerns of parents such as Megan Baci-
school — a lot of times politics doesn’t touch peo- galupi, who quit her job at a San Francisco Bay
ple’s lives, but that’s a massive impact on parents’ Area nonprofit last year to help her two young
lives that pisses them off,” said Brian Stryker, a children deal with the hassles of remote learning.
Democratic pollster based in Chicago. “The Chi- She’s since founded a group, CA Parent Power,
cago strike may be the moment when Democrats to push to keep schools open.
“Overwhelmingly, Democratic parents are quite
willing to vote for an independent or a Repub-
lican in November,” said Bacigalupi, who just
changed her registration from Democrat to unaf-
filiated and said she’s never voted Republican in
her life. “Two years in, it doesn’t feel like we are
in a place where our worldview won’t be shaped
by COVID policies.”
Randi Weingarten, president of the American
“Señor ta mi wardador, mi’n tin falta di nada Federation of Teachers, said the recent story of
Den cunucu di yerba berde e ta ponemi sosega. schools and COVID-19 is a triumph. She con-
E ta hibami na awa trankil, trasted last winter, when as many as 45% of the
Pa mi bolbe haña forsa”. nation’s schools were closed during a surge, to
Salmo: 23 now, when vaccinations are widespread and 98%
of schools are open despite even higher COV-
Nos ta anuncia fayecimento di: ID-19 caseloads.
“That shows remarkable strength and courage
and fortitude on behalf of teachers and parapro-
fessionals,” Weingarten said. “Omicron is the en-
emy, not each other.”
Olivia Gerard-Lugay
*22-12-1951 - †12-01-2022
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