Nearly 900 teachers and paraeducators in San Francisco public schools called out sick Thursday, in what might have been a planned sickout.
SF Standard reporter Sarah Wright says the SFUSD board voted in favor of a staff budget proposal that cuts to cover a projected $125 million deficit.
Teachers are asking that they get paid sick leave if they contract COVID. They are also demanding more consistent testing and N95s for all students."We need to have N95s and it seems the response from the district is, omicron is not as bad, so people are just going to get it, which is not acceptable," insisted Casteel.
Special Education Teacher Heidi Seretan came to the school district to pick up some test kits because none of them have been delivered to her site. "We're on the list to have distribution, however, we don't have them yet and we want to make sure that we have something just in case students are symptomatic or staff are symptomatic," explained Seretan.Across the bay, in Oakland, some teachers there are hoping their sickout planned for Friday will have an impact.
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