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Reopening Schools in the Aftermath of the Storm

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Hurricane Sandy; Reopening Schools in the Aftermath of the Storm

RECOMMENDATIONS FOR ADMINISTRATORS AND TEACHERS
By Denny Taylor
Originally Published on November 3, 2012

Recommendations for Administrators and Teachers Responding to Hurricane Sandy

Hurricane Sandy has created long lasting catastrophic conditions in the North East of the United States. People are making heroic efforts to respond to the emergency. At hospitals in New York City nurses arrived on Sunday and did not leave until Wednesday evening. On Monday Michael Bloomberg, the mayor of NYC, called on New York teachers to be first responders in public shelters in the city. Teachers are strong, capable, compassionate, and always ready to take care of children and their families, but, unlike doctors, nurses, the police, firefighters and EMT’s, teachers receive little or no training. Nevertheless teachers are leading the way.
One teacher from Long Beach writes, “I have been running our medical triage where we assess patients and then dispatch them to ambulances or to busses to be transported to shelters. We also have a doctor working off of a trolley trying to see as many people as he can to get medication and vaccinations out to the people who need it. The outreach has been amazing”.
“I am wondering what they are doing about the public schools here?” the same teacher writes. “They got a lot of

On the ground in Chicago; A day in the life

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Karen Lewis and Carl West

On the ground in Chicago; A day in the life

By Bob George. Save Our Schools
Originally Published on November 4, 2012
Over the past several days I had the privilege of being involved in several Chicago education events with Parents, Students, Teachers, CTU and Core members. On Thursday Evening the Black Caucus of CTU sponsored a discussion with President Karen Lewis of CTU on the recent Strike, the implications for the community and what’s next. Leadership from the Black community was on hand as Karen laid out the Strike Story.
Carl West the owner of Truth Be Told news service asked Karen to describe the process of how CTU came to Strike. Karen said:

“The strike bubbled up from the Rank and File!” As the membership’s voice was heard they expressed their anger at the injustice of a system that treated children as numbers, regularly