John M. Abeigon, president of the Newark Teachers Union (Local 481), is calling for students in the city’s public school district — the largest in New Jersey — to be required to get COVID-19 tests, the same as teachers and support staff.
“The Newark Teachers Union has strongly urged the Newark Board of Education and the state Department of Education to mandate student testing on the informed assumption that everyone in the city has come in presumptive contact with someone affected by the COVID [virus],” Abeigon said in a story by NJ Advance Media’s Kelly Heyboer.
Public schools in Newark are scheduled to reopen their doors for in-person learning Jan. 25.
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