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Hawaiʻi Teachers Lodge Complaints Over Pandemic Conditions

(AP) — Hawaiʻi’s teachers union has filed two grievances against the statewide public school system over pandemic working conditions. Hawaiʻi News Now reports the Hawaiʻi State Teachers Association says educators are being forced to work in unsafe conditions. The union says in grievances that teachers have to work extra hours and are being forced to teach remotely while on sick leave. Union officials say teachers and school administrators have to do contact tracing themselves. They say some students with pending test results and siblings of those who are sick are still going to school.

 

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