Posted on 04/29/2020 3:15:17 PM PDT by ConservativeInPA
HARRISBURG, Pa. (WHTM) — More than a month into the statewide school closure, state Education Secretary Pedro Rivera says with current data, he doesn’t see schools reopening in the fall.
“We’re preparing for the best, but we’re planning for the worst,” Rivera said.
He said schools across the commonwealth have stepped up by providing continuity of education through online and print materials, as well as programming broadcast on public television.
“At the end of the day, we’re going to make sure that the health and welfare of our students is first and foremost, front and center,” Rivera said. “And we’re not going to allow and ask students to return to school in an unsafe environment.”
Rivera says the Department of Education is working with rural and urban schools in particular, where students may not have access to technology.
“One of the things we’ve been able to do in community like that is make our online portal content downloadable and some of our equity grants have actually gone to printing and shipping and delivery costs,” he said.
Rivera said the legislature and the governor are focused on getting schools the resources they need and the Department of Education is planning for all possibilities for next school year.
“We’re going to track the data and we’re going to hope for the best, but unless we can really work towards solving this pandemic and lessening the number of cases, there’s a chance that students may not return to school,” Rivera said.
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Tax payers/ parents need a refund.
They never consider the big city vs the rest of the state.
Philly is a hotbed.
Rest of the state not so much.
OK Pedro, time to start the RIFs of the unnecessary PA DoE managers and teachers.
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Typical LIB/Leftist nitwittery. Actually, maybe more people will realize what a danger “public” school is to their children...and begin homeschooling. Are taxpayers receiving large % rebates on their property taxes (which mostly go for schools)? None of the usually worthless school administrators should be getting paid. Teachers also. Has anyone noticed that no public “servants” have been laid off or given pay cuts? This ridiculous. Pure insanity by fascist wannabes.
Coincidentally a battleground state for the presidential election in November.
They will RIF the janitors and bus drivers. Teachers and administrators, never.
I’m assuming your Education Secretary isn’t quite as out to lunch as your Health Secretary.
Time to recall Mr. Smith from Washington. Too bad he’s dead.
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A coalition of parent teachers would want their students to have good academic and character development than Educrats. The public school was not a foundation of this country. It has been an agent of decadence.
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Gov. Wolf needs to get a grip on reality here. This kind of loose talk benefits nobody.
I want my school tax refund.
Actually it might be better all around if the public schools were to remain closed permanently. Those who care about their children would make homeschooling permanent and we would raise up a better educated cohort.
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Straight, male, U.S. Citizen...family from Puerto Rico.
What better way to see that it happens again than to tell the parents that they will have to keep their children at home in the fall and make arrangements for their care or give up one income stream.
President Trump should make this an issue in October, hammering PA Democrats over forcing the parents to stay at home to watch the children instead of working to put food on the table.
Then, when Democrats cave he can take credit for still being there for the abandoned American middle class worker.
-PJ
In each of the three states we have lived, a large percentage of teachers and counselors at my son's schools were morbidly obese to the point of resembling Jabba the Hut.
Yes they will.
It does seem that a large share of the mature, well-mannered, intelligent young folks I’ve encountered through my 62 as a lifelong bachelor were homeschoolers.
About the only thing I learned in public school was how to stand up to bullies. Unfortunately, that’s a lesson I learned the hard way and rather late in the game.
Obviously, it’s foolish to be bitter about one’s school years at my age — but I’m under no obligation to wax nostalgic. Public school was a pretty degrading experience until my junior year of high school.
One thing I can tell you ... adulthood and all its responsibilities were an absolute joy by comparison.
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