The Oakland Unified School District has extended the COVID-19 leave for thousands of staff and announced a “wellness day” for teachers on Friday ahead of another planned “sickout” of some teachers and students demanding better COVID safety measures. The OUSD announced that it reached an … Read More

More than 500 Oakland Unified School District teachers staged a “sickout” Friday to demand more COVID-19 security measures from the district, including two weeks of distance learning and mass distribution of N95 masks, amid a recent rise in omicron-powered cases variants. Due to 503 teacher … Read More

The public health message is clear: stay home if you can, especially if you are ill. But as the Omicron variant puts significant pressure on Ontarios COVID-19 test capacity, important workers face a new challenge: how to prove they have caught the virus. That struggle … Read More