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Happy New Year to Local 1825! I hope everyone had a safe and joyous holiday. While the Union supports the safe return to in-person learning, we prioritize students and staff safety as the government plans to open its doors on January 24th. The Local applauds the government's effort to slow the mitigation of the virus by postponing in-person learning for two weeks. 

The need for our students to be in school is evident. However, as the Omicron variant surges in the Virgin Islands, we must continue to follow CDC protocols to mitigate transmission, including regular testing, temperature checks

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The Virgin Islands Department of Education recently released its modified calendar for the 2021-21 school year. 


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Ms. Jennifer Foster is a CTE teacher and will represent Charlotte Amalie High School as the 2021-22 Teacher of the Year! She has gone above and beyond the classroom and transformed the high school’s Cosmetology Department into a full-service salon. And Ms. Foster’s tutelage isn’t just relegated to desks and clippers. She has inspired her students to use their acumen throughout the community as well, and serve the elderly, homeless and other underserved Virgin Islanders with their wealth of hands-on and classroom skills.

 

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Randi Weingarten and NYC teacher Tamara Simpson

Attacks on public education in America by extremists and culture-war peddling politicians have reached new heights (“lows” may be more apt), but they are not new. The difference today is that the attacks are intended not just to undermine public education but to destroy it.

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