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Trumps Order on Coronavirus Relief Alarms Governors as Stimulus Talks Stall
The Trump administration is ordering schools on Native American reservations to reopen. Californias chief health officer has resigned. The pandemic has now sickened more than 20 million people, according to a Times database.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/10/world/coronavirus-covid-19.html?campaign_id=60&emc=edit_na_20200810&instance_id=0&nl=breaking-news&ref=headline®i_id=22098736&segment_id=35719&user_id=8cbf35c306e720c7e6384d1bf32ec141#link-6cc0640
Published Aug. 10, 2020 Updated Aug. 11, 2020
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Federal schools on Native American reservations, where infection rates can run high, are told to reopen.
The Trump administration is ordering schools operated by the Bureau of Indian Education to reopen for in-person instruction to the maximum extent possible on Sept. 16, according to an internal memo obtained by The New York Times.
The memo says that while families may choose to keep their students home and rely on virtual instruction, teachers are expected to teach in person unless they are at high risk for health complications should they contract the coronavirus.
The bureau operates 53 schools serving Native Americans living on tribal lands. A number of reservations have been hard-hit by the coronavirus, especially the Navajo Nation in the Southwest.
The bureaus schools are among the few under direct federal control, rather than state or local control. The bureau is part of the Department of the Interior.
Sue Parton, a member of the Kiowa Tribe of Oklahoma and the president of the union that represents the bureaus employees, said the plan to reopen the schools so soon was foolish.
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raging moderate
(4,281 posts)What if everybody stayed away? We can fix this mess later, when these monsters are out of the White House!
eppur_se_muova
(36,227 posts)Instead of contentious meetings, this results in sparsely attended meetings, which are interpreted as not representing the true wishes of the tribe/clan/family. I would expect no less for schools.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)to their health. As if this were 1920.
bigtree
(85,915 posts)malaise
(267,799 posts)Something must be seriously wrong when this monster can't be stopped in the middle of this genocide
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bronxiteforever
(9,287 posts)All they have done is bring pain to Native Americans.
eppur_se_muova
(36,227 posts)Past time to contact the Hague.
JohnnyLib2
(11,206 posts)Kick for wider distribution.
niyad
(112,431 posts)lands?