Nikki Fried: 'I absolutely stand with our teachers union'

[RandySF]

Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried expressed support Wednesday for a lawsuit attempting to overturn an executive order that would require all Florida schools to reopen next month.

“I absolutely stand with our teachers unions,” Fried told MSNBC’s Chris Jansing. “As we know in our Florida Constitution, our schools have to be safe and secure in order to be open and that is not what’s going to happen here.”

The Florida Education Association’s lawsuit, filed Monday, hinges on language within the Florida Constitution that requires schools to be “safe” and “secure.”

“Adequate provision shall be made by law for a uniform, efficient, safe, secure, and high quality system of free public schools,” the Florida Constitution mandates.

Opponents argue schools remain unsafe amid Florida’s continuous swell of COVID-19 cases.



https://floridapolitics.com/archives/350911-nikki-fried-i-absolutely-stand-with-our-teachers-union

[BigmanPigman]

1. A 3rd grade teacher in FL who got Covid is suing the state...

Maybe more teachers doing this in other states will put the financial pressure (which is already incredible high for public schools) on districts to resist the too early reopening of schools. Schools are a business. Period. They have a bottom line and if enough teachers and unions sue they will not have an option. Along with a shortage of substitutes, schools are not going to be in a hurry to reopen. It isn't the teachers' health they care about, or even the students' health, it is the bottom line/$$$. If no one is volunteering to be a substitute Covid guinea pig for crappy pay and lousy benefits, there will be no school.