When Will School Closures End? Not Until We Empower Parents

What Are Parents To Do? They’ve Shown Up To School Board Meetings And Pleaded For Reopening. They’ve Demanded – Sometimes Successfully – That State Legislatures Limit School Districts’ Ability To Close Schools And Impose Mask Mandates. Yet The Education Establishment And Government Officials Repeatedly Ignore Parents’ Concerns And Sometimes Even Ignore The New State Laws Limiting Their Power. Parents Easily Can Be Ignored Because In Most Cases, They Have Little Say Over Their Child’s Education.

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COVID-19 Regulations Make Businesses Inaccessible To The Disabled

Pandemic Reopening Guidelines Forced Businesses & Restaurants To Make A Number Of Changes To Their Normal Operations. Advocacy Groups For The Disabled Are Speaking Out Against Changes That Have Made These Businesses Less Accessible For Some Individuals & Have Pushed Businesses To Be Out Of Compliance With Federal Laws.

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Blue States Scramble To Loosen Restrictions After Red States’ Success

State Re-openings Around The Country Appear To Be Pressuring States – Particularly Northern States With Democratic Governors, To Soften Their Stances On Mitigations. Now, With Vaccines Promised To The Nation By May 1, Governors Who Had Dug In Are Relenting On Mitigations. Some More Slowly Than Others.

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National Association Optimistic On Sales Growth For 2021

Retail Sales In The U.S. Could Rise Between 6.5% And 8.2% To More Than $4.3 Trillion This Year As More People Get The COVID-19 Vaccine And The Economy Reopens, According To The National Retail Federation.

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Tennessee Signed Contract With Consulting Firm While Also Investigating It For Role In Opioid Epidemic

Tennessee State Records Show The State Entered Into Consulting Contract With McKinsey & Co Consulting Firm While State Attorney General Was Investigating Firm For Its Role In The Opioid Epidemic.

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