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  1. Nancy Bailey has assembled a devastating review of a three-decades long effort to destroy the teaching profession and replace it with models derived from the corporate sector. She begins:

    The pandemic has been rough on teachers, but there has for years been an organized effort to end a professional teaching workforce by politicians and big businesses.

    In 1992, The Nation’s cover story by Margaret Spillane and Bruce Shapiro described the meeting of President H. W. Bush and a roomful of Fortune 500 CEOs who planned to launch a bold new industrial venture to save the nation’s schoolchildren.

    The report titled, “A small circle of friends: Bush’s new American schools. (New American Schools Development Corp.),” also called NASDC, didn’t discuss saving public schools or teachers. They viewed schools as failed experiments, an idea promoted by the Reagan…

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The Solution is a For the Eco-Crisis is a Revolution that Should Happen inside us — FunWritings

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The Solution is a For the Eco-Crisis is a Revolution that Should Happen inside us — FunWritings

Under New NY Mandate, All Indoor Businesses Must Pick Between Mask Wearing Or COVID Vaccination – Gothamist

New York will implement a statewide mask mandate for most indoor activity – unless a business or venue requires all patrons and staff to be vaccinated, Gov. Kathy Hochul announced Friday.

The new mandate, which will take effect Monday, will require anyone over the age of two to wear a mask covering their face and nose at all times while in an indoor public space. Businesses and venues that choose to impose a vaccine mandate would not be required to also mandate masks, according to Hochul’s office. Those in violation of the mandate are subject to a $1,000 fine, Hochul said. Local health departments will be tasked with enforcing the mandate.

Source: Under New NY Mandate, All Indoor Businesses Must Pick Between Mask Wearing Or COVID Vaccination – Gothamist