President Biden's speech Sept. 9 in which he outlined steps to require two-thirds of the nation's workforce to be vaccinated against the coronavirus—including mandatory vaccinations for roughly 300,000 educators in the Federal Head Start Program—got a ringing endorsement from American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten.
"The Biden administration is using every lever of government to keep people in America safe from the latest COVID-19 surge, prevent further mutations, and help every American get their lives back to some semblance of normalcy," she said in a statement. "If we truly want to put COVID-19 behind us—for our economy to stay open and grow, our hospitals not to be overrun by COVID-19 cases, and our kids to go to school and remain in school, full time, in person—we need to embrace the scientifically proven methods to keep this virus at bay: masking, testing, vaccinations and ventilation."
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