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Baltimore City Teachers Union Rallies Against Reopening Schools

A car rally organized by Baltimore City Public Schools staff raised awareness about concerns regarding the coronavirus and reopening.

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“We’re hoping by creating a spectacle and making some noise, maybe it will urge the district leadership and the school board to reconsider some of their decisions and take us up on some of our proposals,” union president Diamonte Brown said Jan. 12.
“We’re hoping by creating a spectacle and making some noise, maybe it will urge the district leadership and the school board to reconsider some of their decisions and take us up on some of our proposals,” union president Diamonte Brown said Jan. 12. (WJZ)

BALTIMORE, MD — With the uncontrolled spread of COVID-19 over the past several weeks, some educators in Baltimore are worried about safety inside school buildings.

Baltimore City Public Schools teachers, parents and staff gathered at a car rally Tuesday outside the city’s school headquarters said they simply don’t feel safe going back inside classrooms and feel their concerns around a rushed reopening plan have been largely brushed aside. The car rally was organized by the Baltimore teachers union’s COVID-19 task force and is part of a National Day of Action for safe schools.

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