Due to the resurgence of COVID, the Network for Public Education has rescheduled its annual conference, which was planned for October in Philadelphia. Safety first!
NPE Re-schedules Conference for March 2022 and More
We are so disappointed to announce that we need to re-schedule our NPE/NPE Action conference until next spring. However, we are happy to announce that we have secured a new date–March 19 and 20. Again, we will be in Philadelphia at the Doubletree Hotel.
We were hopeful this time. Even when Delta began, we believed, as told, that breakthrough infections are rare. They are not. Every one in five infections in New Jersey, the only state that seems to be keeping track, sickens a vaccinated person. 20% is not rare.
And so we realized that even with a vaccine mandate for attendees, we could not protect you or the children and young students you might return to when the conference is done.
We ask for your patience once again. As public education advocates fighting the uphill battle to save and improve public schools, we look with hope to the spring of 2022.
There is no need to re-register. We will honor your tickets. If you canceled and were kind enough to donate your ticket, let us know, and we will make sure you get a free ticket to attend. We are happy to issue refunds minus credit and bank fees, but the best deal is holding that registration and saving fees and price increases.
Diane Ravitch's blog 
I’m sure Covid will be eradicated from the face of the earth by March.
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Hats off to you, Lady Diane!
Breakthroughs continue to rise.
“Breakthrough infections again accounted for about 40% of all cases reported in Massachusetts last week.
Nearly 20,000 fully vaccinated Massachusetts residents have now tested positive for COVID-19 and more than 130 of them have died, according to the latest state data on breakthrough cases published Tuesday.
The Department of Public Health has tracked a cumulative 19,443 confirmed COVID-19 infections among those fully vaccinated in the state to date and a total of 144 deaths.
In the last week alone, 3,074 new breakthrough cases — infections in people who have been vaccinated — have been reported.”
University of California San Diego Health (UCSDH)
” With 83% of workforce fully vaccinated– 57.3% of new infections were fully vaccinated.”
Israel confirmed cases- 7-4 to 7-31
age group 20-90:
15,634 cases FULLY Vaccinated
3,038 cases UNvaccinated.
Yes, many believed as told, but TOLD doesn’t stop
the virus anymore than a jab that isn’t a VACCINE.
“mRNA technology has never been successfully utilized to show its capacity to reduce the incidence of infectious diseases in human beings, ever! We have no history of this.
Clear evidence from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), which reported on an outbreak of SARS-CoV-2 infections, including COVID-19 vaccine breakthrough infections, associated with large public gatherings in Barnstable County, Massachusetts, in July 2021: “469 COVID-19 cases were identified among Massachusetts residents who had traveled to the town during July 3–17; 346 (74%) occurred in fully vaccinated persons.
Adding to this, an August 10, 2021 LANCET journal publication by Chau et al. looking at transmission of SARS-CoV-2 Delta variant among vaccinated healthcare workers in Vietnam, further ransacks the COVID-19 injection landscape and throws it into turmoil in terms of disastrous findings.
The British Public Health System, Public Health England (PHE), in its latest iteration of the spread and analysis of the “Delta variant” (report 21), throws this injection into more disarray by showing that approximately 60% of the deaths post-Delta variant infection occurred in double-vaccinated persons.
There are reports now that those who received the third booster shot in Israel have become infected.
Gibraltar and Iceland have had 90% of their populations injected, yet have experienced explosive rises in COVID-19 infections.”
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Regarding NJ, QUOTE: Of the more than 5 million people in New Jersey who have completed their vaccine series, less than 0.24 percent have contracted the virus.
Sixty-eight coronavirus-related deaths have occurred among the 12,242 fully vaccinated persons confirmed with COVID-19. These deaths represent .0001 percent of recent COVID-19 deaths. 307 COVID-related hospitalizations have happened in that time frame, representing .006 percent.
Nationwide, as of Aug. 23, 2,063 fully vaccinated people have died as a result of the virus, and 87 percent of them have been age 65 or older, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. end quote From the South Brunswick Patch
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The pandemic as we know it may be on the verge of becoming much deadlier thanks to Trumpish lunatics that refuse to wear masks and be vaccinated turning themselves into COVID mutation factories, and the fact that many people that live in extreme poverty around the world do not have access to health care, a problem in the U.S., too.
“A guide to delta, delta-plus, lambda, and other infectious coronavirus variants”
https://www.popsci.com/health/infectious-coronavirus-variants-guide
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Was just thinking about the conference before I clicked onto this site.
Thanks to all involved who put on the conferences!
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Thank you, Duane. Safety first.
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