those are our biggest concerns, that and ensuring the safety of staff, paraprofessionals, support stafftudents who travel back and forth to homes each day that may have folks that are compromised health-wise. >> and you have just mentioned this, but you have a very unique perspective to all of this. three people connected to the school have died of covid. as i'm reading one before them is a 19-year-old custodian. his mother and also the person who manages after-school programming at the school. that's tragedy it, and that was all in july. on top of that in july you and your wife got covid. how has all of this changed your view on the school year? >> i think that it has heightened and made me more aware in my other role as a local county commissioner. we have established a local mask mandate but more importantly as a school principal and someone responsible for all of these nokes, you know, in anticipation of merely 450 kids returning to our school campus -- excuse me, 450 kids and staff members returning to our campus on august 31st, we have a great concern about their safety. the last

so we have a very high number of paraprofessionals and we were able to leverage my co-teacher and myselfeing able to work one-on-one with the parents and work them through using zoom and google classroom and we've relied on them to be there and to help them access the divides. help them through muting and unmuting, enter and exit breakout rooms, being able to use the link through google classroom. so i think it really requires more of a partnership between the family and the teacher. >> can you quickly tell me what your mainer can or concerns are? >> my main concern is that we are going into the fall. i know we have parts, you shared with us today. that we're going into the fall semester on a plan being built as we go along. nobody wants to get on a plane that doesn't have a wing. right now we feel like we're boarding a plane that is not ready to fly. we need the resources to share with families and access to the online curriculums and the platforms so our students can be successful. >> okay. good analogy. and we want to you join in the conversation. go to facebook or youtube to weigh in

jonathan thomas is a bus monitor and a paraprofessional at mayfair elementary school in east clevelandistrict. the kids writing the bus, he's the first contact with school in the morning. he works hard to make sure they have a good start to the day. >> oh, well. i drink all that milk, i'll be in trouble. >> right. >> and how long have you been working here? >> i have been working at this school going on this is my second year. i have been in the district seven years. >> did you go to school here? >> not here but i did go to school in the district. >> you know these fine people in here? >> oh, yeah, this is my guy right here. one of my helpers. >> come out. >> what grade is everybody in? >> 6th. >> oh, kinder garten. >> 5th. >> what grade are you in? >> i am in the 4th grade for the tenth time. what are your favorite classes? >> my favorite class is you focus and tell you what you get yourself together. my favorite part of school is computer lab. basically when we go there on friday we basically get to have free time. >> my thing is dinosaur, all as to play time outside to the park and

vice president, as you know, we represent teachers, paraprofessionals. >> can you hear the vice presidentt had hi. >> hi, how are you? >> i don't think she can hear me but that's okay. where are you speaking to me from? where are you now? >> i am at home. >> where are you now speaking to me. i mean where, where is home? >> in brooklyn, new york. >> never mind. >> brookland, she said. >> capital of the world. >> jason: biden is expected to announce his vice president pick next week and while there's increasing chatter around senator, harris, especially after an associated press photographer captured biden's notes about the california senator, another democrat, congresswoman karen bass, is also seeing her stock rise. despite bass being portrayed as a safe moderate choice, her path reveals just the opposite. for example, just this week, bass had to walk back a previous comment praising fidel castro. now what does this all mean? it means that no matter who biden pixies committed to move as far left as the radical democrats want him to. but don't take my word for it. just listen to congresswom

a very creative approach to try to figure out how to use small breakout rooms for paraprofessionals to work with students of special needs one on one. meetings with specialists as well as classroom teachers and eagerness to get back to school in person. >> linda, if i may, because i think it is important. the guidelines we put out recently afford the ability for districts to make a determination for those with acute needs. to allow in person instruction. even with the broader guidelines we put out. maybe you can amplify. i know there is additional work being done in that space. but for a foundational principle, that is one that we have advanced through your leadership. and tony thurman's leadership. >> many many districts are prepared to offer small group settings. even while schools are closed. in the way the child care settings are allowed to operate . with all of the rules that you review for us earlier. to be able to bring back in person those students whose needs are difficult to meet online and are much better met in person. we are working through guidance with the california dep

and people from cafeteria workers to bus drivers to paraprofessionals and k-12 teachers should not bes. >> obviously, the first day of school is usually a very exciting time for parents, teachers, and students, but just like everything in 2020, here in florida it's very uncertain as parents try to do the best for their children and school districts do everything they can to keep people safe, but districts have opened in places like georgia, indiana, and even in the first week, they're already starting to see infections. so we'll have to see how it goes here as schools start to reopen in the different counties across florida over the next couple weeks. >> all right, chris pallone in winter garden, florida, thank you so much for that. >>> among the president's new executive actions, one deals with the issue of eviction. the president claimed in his news conference he was extending the federal moratorium on evictions that lapsed late last month. the reality is quite different, though. in that it merely calls for top officials to consider whether an evection's halt is needed, and it doesn

dangerous, it's life or death right now and people from cafeteria workers to bus drivers to paraprofessionals and k through 12 teachers they should not be putting their lines on the line trying to educate kids. >> reporter: now, of course, across the state there are plans to contact trace if students do test positive or teachers for that matter, but of course here in florida they're keeping an eye on other school districts around the country which have already opened, places like georgia, mississippi, tennessee, indiana, some of those school districts have only been open for a week and are already seeing positive cases. >> and so important to note, too, after six days of decline in florida another spike of 8,500 cases reported. chris pollone live in winter garden, florida. thank you. >>> breaking news major unrest in the middle east at this hour. thousands gathering overnight in israel outside the prime minister's home calling for benjamin netanyahu to resign. their anger partly over his handling of the covid crisis in that country. >>> in nearby lebanon the after shock of that deadly beirut

i would like to hear of any behind the scenes training that the paraprofessionals are given and of any resources shared with these families, especially considering the fact that i think it's kind of the sad truth that paraprofessionals and special education students are always the first to be impacted when it comes to these budget cuts and i would like to know if there's any behind the scenes training supporting the paraprofessionals or if any way that you guys have been reaching out to special education students. i know that it's pretty early, so it's kind of hard to say because school hasn't started, but if there's any plan tha thau guys have. >> about the educator plan, i'm the executive director in curriculum instruction. i love your questions. these are great questions to make sure we're covering all of our bases. we have a robust plan for paraeducators this fall and so every year we offer -- this is our fourth parainstitute and normally we hold it for two days, the week of what would be august 10th and this year we'll offer this for four full days and there will be virtual sessio

the 1.7 million-member american federation of teachers, afl-cio, which represents teachers, paraprofessionalsol-related personnel, faculty and staff, nurses, and other health care professionals. local state and federal government employees, and early childhood educators. please welcome the president of the american federation of teachers, randi weingarten. she will be joined by edward kelly of the federation of government employees, and our brother ken of the international union of painters and trade. organized labor, y'all. give them a round of applause. [applause] >> good evening, brothers and sisters. i want to thank rev. al sharpton, martin luther king iii for convening this march. i am here today to represent 700,000 men and women making up afge. the american federation of government employees. it is an honor to be here. we are a diverse union. we are from all across the country, all ages, all abilities. we provide every single type of service to the american public. what unites us? well, what brings us together is one big labor union. we believe in fairness. we believe in due process. w

i hear week in and week out from parents, from teachers, from paraprofessionals anxious. how are our schools going to reopen? what's the plan? where are the resources? what are the details? how do we get testing? how do we get personal equipment, personal protective equipment? even now there's conversations urgently going on in my home state about how and when and where we'll be able to reopen. when it comes to child care, millions of americans are unable to return to work because there isn't support for child care. and when it comes to small businesses, thousands have closed their doors. thousands more are at risk. we will not get through this unless we can pull together and deliver a sustained and meaningful response. so to my colleagues and friends, i don't know where the rest of our colleagues are. i don't know what they're hearing. but i know what i'm hearing from my constituents in delaware. the way they make sure, mr. president, that we don't get disconnected from our home when we're here in washington, boy they text, they e-mail, they call, they post on social med