The Real Harm of Teachers Union's Decision to Keep Schools Closed

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🗓️ 29 January 2021

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Summary

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently announced it’s now safe to resume in-person schooling, providing appropriate precautions are taken. Yet, the Chicago Teachers Union voted Sunday to keep students home and continue all teaching virtual.

Jonathan Butcher, a Heritage Foundation senior policy analyst in the Center for Education Policy, joins the show to explain the role unions are playing in keeping schools closed in Chicago and across the county, and what should be done to ensure all students have the opportunity to receive a good education.

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0:00.0	This is the Daily Signal Podcast for Friday, January 29th. I'm Kate Trinko.
0:10.3	And I'm Virginia Allen. The Chicago Teachers Union voted Sunday to not reopen schools
0:16.7	despite the CDC saying it's now safe to do so. Jonathan Butcher, a Heritage Foundation senior policy analyst in the Center for Education
0:25.9	Policy, joins the show to explain the role unions are playing in keeping schools closed
0:31.1	in Chicago and across the country and what should be done
0:34.5	to ensure all students have the opportunity to receive a good education.
0:38.6	And don't forget if you're enjoying this podcast please be sure to leave a review or a five-star
0:44.5	rating on Apple Podcast and please encourage others to subscribe.
0:49.2	Now, on to our top news. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer announced that when it comes to the massive COVID relief bill, Senate Democrats
1:05.3	could move ahead without Republican votes.
1:08.7	Here's what he had to say via the Hill.
1:12.0	So the Senate, as early as next week, will begin the process of considering a very strong
1:17.9	COVID relief bill.
1:20.1	Our preference is to make this important work bipartisan to include input ideas and
1:26.1	revisions from our Republican colleagues or bipartisan efforts to do the same. But if our Republican colleagues decide to oppose this urgent
1:36.2	and necessary legislation, we will have to move forward without them. We have a responsibility to help the American people fast, particularly given
1:47.1	these new economic numbers. The Senate will begin that work next week.
1:52.4	Schumer is alluded. will begin that work next week.
1:53.0	Schumer is alluding to a process called Budget Reconciliation
1:58.0	which can allow a fiscal bill that meets certain conditions
2:02.0	to pass with just 51 votes in the Senate.
2:05.0	The current COVID-19 package being discussed is a whopping $1.9 trillion.
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