TEACHERS UNIONS ASKS LPS TO DELAY FULL SCHOOL REOPENING IN FACE OF SPIKING COVID-19 CASES

LINCOLN - The Lincoln Education Association, in a rare break with the school district that employs 2,300 of its members, issued a statement Thursday asking the district to delay fully reopening Lincoln Public Schools until the spike in COVID-19 cases ends.

The statement says, “There is a very real probability that adults in our school system will become ill or even die with COVID by reopening now. That is not a price that our community should pay.”

The teachers union said its preference is to delay reopening of schools until the Lincoln-Lancaster County Health Department’s “risk dial” is firmly in the green (safest) range, or until the county has 14 days with no new cases. It is now in the orange, or high-risk, range.

LPS has been moving forward with plans to reopen schools on Aug. 12, and will release the specifics of their plan on Tuesday during the daily briefing by the mayor and Lincoln-Lancaster County Health Department.

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