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John,
We just received this email from Randi Weingarten, president of AFT, and thought you should read it.
She wants you to know about tomorrow’s telephone town hall with the National PTA, which will be sponsored by the Carnegie Corporation of New York. The call will be at 5:45 p.m. ET, tomorrow, April 14.
Click here to sign up for tomorrow’s telephone town hall.
In Solidarity,
Team AFL-CIO |
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---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Randi Weingarten <[email protected]> Date: Sat, Apr 11, 2020 at 5:49 PM Subject: Tuesday's townhall with the PTA To: Team AFL-CIO <[email protected]> |
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John,
The coronavirus pandemic has upended our lives. More than 18,000 people have died in the U.S. from COVID-19; our healthcare and other frontline workers are still fighting for personal protective equipment; and our educators are trying to make grab-and-go meals and remote instruction work. And as governors and mayors try to manage this crisis with a lot of resources from Congress, the president continues his mixed messages—from initially downplaying the crisis, refusing to prepare, and now focusing on Wall Street rather than people’s lives and well-being.
We have tried to stay connected in many ways, including our weekly Tuesday telephone town halls. This past week’s town hall with Jerome Adams, the U.S. surgeon general, was a success. We had more than 50,000 members participate, and Dr. Adams spent nearly an hour answering questions from our members.
We know that in the best of circumstances, parents and teachers work together. However, how do we maintain this now during the COVID-19 crisis—especially with our most vulnerable students and families? Together, parents and educators must find ways to deal with the anxiety and trauma that are facing us and our students during the current pandemic.
In addition to Nathan Monell, executive director of the National PTA, we’ll hear from Dr. Pamela Cantor, founder and senior science advisor of Turnaround for Children, and Arthur Evans, Ph.D., CEO of the American Psychological Association. And we’ll have a parent and an educator highlighting some practices they’ve deployed to support students during this time.
If you signed up earlier to be on all AFT telephone town halls, you’re already registered. But if you would like to sign up specifically for this one, you can do so here.
We hope you and your family are safe and healthy.
And if you celebrate Passover or Easter, I hope you find spiritual peace in these holidays.
In unity,
Randi Weingarten |
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