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With COVID-19 surging, Minnesota school leaders must do more to protect communities

Everyone in Minnesota’s school communities must do their part to keep each other safe, said Education Minnesota President Denise Specht on Tuesday when announcing the union’s support for urgent new warnings about COVID-19 in schools from the state departments of health and education.

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Education Minnesota calls for state leaders to ‘be bold’ with plans to vaccine all school-age children 

Education Minnesota President Denise Specht called on state and school leaders to “be bold” in their plans to vaccinate all school-age children against COVID-19 after an U.S. Food and Drug Administration advisory panel endorsed on Tuesday the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine for children 5 to 11 years old.

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State reports first student death, fourth and fifth school staff deaths, from COVID-19 this school year

School leaders around the state must do more to protect students and staff from the dangerous delta variant of the coronavirus, Education Minnesota said Thursday after the state health department reported the first death of a student from COVID-19 this school year and two more staff deaths.