AASA Leads Letter Urging Expediency in Developing Kids Vaccines
Today, AASA along with 16 other national education, labor
and health organizations, wrote to the Biden Administration asking them to
urgently focus resources in developing a safe and effective COVID-19 vaccine
for use in children. Schools are best equipped to educate children in person,
where, beyond the academic development of children and adolescents, schools
play a critical role in building students’ social and emotional skills, deliver
reliable nutrition, provide health services, and addressing racial and social
inequality. Unfortunately, until a COVID-19 vaccine is authorized for safe use
in children, we are concerned that many students will continue to be educated
in virtual settings or remain unable to participate in other important
in-person academic and social opportunities that schools can provide.
You can read the letter here.