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Columbus teachers strike on first day back to school

By S. HENDRICKSON starting the school year
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America made up of lesson plans
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A and videos they can ac-
strike by teachers in Ohio's cess through their schools
largest school district en- without a teacher to guide
tered its third day Wednes- them. It's a start that has
day — the first day of school some parents concerned.
for some 47,000 students, Remote learning has con-
with some of those students tributed to students falling
and their parents rallying to behind academically and
their sides. to mental health and be-
Parents, students, teach- havioral challenges.
ers and other employees Mayor Andrew J. Ginther
gathered at schools across announced in a news re-
the Columbus School Dis- lease that the city is part-
trict with plans to picket nering with recreation
for hours, advocating for centers and area nonprofit
safer buildings, better heat- organizations to open "sup-
ing and air conditioning, port centers" with reliable
smaller class sizes, and a internet service for students
more well-rounded curricu- affected by the teacher
lum that includes art, music strike. The centers began
and physical education. It's A union member proudly pickets with her homemade sign as part of a district-wide teacher's operating Wednesday and
the union's first strike in the strike outside Whetstone High School in Columbus, Ohio, on Wednesday, Aug. 24, 2022. are providing spaces for
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district since 1975. students to access online
Picketers blasted music on "We offered a generous since she "hasn't had a nor- The Ohio Education Asso- lessons, however, they are
the sidewalks outside Whet- compensation package mal school year" through ciation said more than 94% "not intended to serve as a
stone High School in Colum- for teachers and provisions high school. of the Columbus Educa- substitute for in-person ac-
bus and waved to honking that would have a positive While she's worried about tion Association members ademic instruction."
drivers. Some held up signs impact on classrooms," the the strike continuing and voted to reject the school Whitney Price, mom to a
reading, "Columbus schools board said in a statement. affecting things like col- board's final offer late Sun- first grader at Columbus
deserve working air," "a his- Eva Tweneboagh, a senior lege scholarships and her day. The union represents Spanish Immersion School,
tory lesson in progress" and at Whetstone High School, grades, she said, her teach- more than 4,000 teachers, said that while she supports
"my feet hurt but I'll walk as picketed alongside her ers shouldn't be backing librarians, nurses and other teachers, she wished these
long as it takes." teachers, her friends and down. employees, though it isn't negotiations between the
The school district and the friends' parents on the sun- "What they're asking is rea- clear how many of those teachers and the school
union resumed bargaining ny Wednesday morning. sonable," Tweneboagh 4,000 members were not district had gotten done
Wednesday afternoon. The She said it's strange to start said. The school district and on the job Wednesday. earlier, when it wouldn't
school board said its offer to off with another disrupted teachers "should be able to The tens of thousands of stu- have affected kids in
the union put children first. school year, especially come together," she said. dents in the district are now school.q

Ex-NYC Mayor de Blasio heads to Harvard as teaching fellow

By KAREN MATTHEWS also serve as a fellow at the liams said. mentorship will be tremen- to them: we CAN make
Associated Press public health school. Williams said both offi- dously helpful to students bold progressive change. I
NEW YORK (AP) — Former “We are thrilled to welcome cials grappled with public who aspire to public office, know because I’ve lived it,”
New York City Mayor Bill de Mayor de Blasio and Mayor health crises including CO- as well as to those who are the former mayor tweeted.
Blasio is headed to Harvard Janey to campus as Men- VID-19, homelessness and looking to lead in other sec- De Blasio, who grew up in
this fall as a teaching fellow schel Senior Leadership Fel- the opioid epidemic. tors,” she said. Massachusetts and is a die-
at the university’s schools lows,” Dean Michelle A. Wil- “Their insights and their At the Institute of Politics, hard Boston Red Sox fan,
of government and public de Blasio will be joined by was prevented by term lim-
health. other fellows including for- its from seeking a third four-
De Blasio, a Democrat who mer Swedish Prime Minister year term as mayor.
served as mayor from from Stefan Löfven. After an unsuccessful cam-
2014 to 2021, will take part Setti Warren, interim direc- paign for the 2020 Demo-
in “a variety of discussions, tor of the institute, said de cratic presidential nomi-
events, and programming” Blasio’s “decades of expe- nation, de Blasio flirted this
at the Institute of Politics rience in local government, year with running for gov-
at the Harvard Kennedy federal agencies, national ernor of New York and later
School and will teach class- campaigns, and running mounted a brief run for a
es on leadership and pub- the largest city in the coun- congressional district that
lic service at the Harvard try will provide invaluable includes his Brooklyn home.
T.H. Chan School of Public insight to our students and Former federal prosecutor
Health, the schools said in the Harvard community.” and Trump impeachment
separate announcements De Blasio said he looked counsel Daniel Goldman
Wednesday. Then-New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio speaks at the opening forward to teaching a new secured the Democratic
Kim Janey, the former act- of New York’s Wollman Rink in Central Park on Sunday, Nov. 14, generation of leaders and nomination for that seat in
ing mayor of Boston, will 2021. activists. “My key message a primary Tuesday.q
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