{"id":702072,"date":"2021-08-31T05:06:04","date_gmt":"2021-08-31T09:06:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=702072"},"modified":"2021-08-31T05:06:06","modified_gmt":"2021-08-31T09:06:06","slug":"fairfax-teachers-win-32-7-million-bonus-for-extraordinary-work-during-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fairfax-teachers-win-32-7-million-bonus-for-extraordinary-work-during-pandemic\/","title":{"rendered":"Fairfax Teachers Win $32.7 Million Bonus for \u2018Extraordinary\u2019 Work During Pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffairfax-teachers-win-32-7-million-bonus-for-extraordinary-work-during-pandemic%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=702072&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div readability=\"29.704641350211\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><a class href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/campus\/\">Campus<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">Virginia&#8217;s largest school district did not fully reopen for the 2020-21 academic year<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"736\" height=\"513\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/School-e1598036340111-736x513-1.jpg\" class=\"w-full lazyload blur-up wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 736px) 100vw, 736px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/s3.freebeacon.com\/up\/2020\/08\/School-e1598036340111.jpg 736w, https:\/\/s3.freebeacon.com\/up\/2020\/08\/School-e1598036340111-300x209.jpg 300w, https:\/\/s3.freebeacon.com\/up\/2020\/08\/School-e1598036340111-704x491.jpg 704w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" \/><figcaption class=\"absolute text-white p-4 w-full text-right text-xs bottom-0 bg-black opacity-75\">\n\t\t\t\tGetty Images\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gray text-xs md:text-lg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/alex-nester\/\" title=\"Posts by Alex Nester\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Alex Nester<\/a> \u2022 August 31, 2021 4:59 am<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div readability=\"67.886138613861\">\n<p>Virginia&#8217;s largest school district is paying teachers $32.7 million in bonuses for their &#8220;extraordinary contributions and sacrifices&#8221; during the coronavirus pandemic, which they spent primarily working from home.<\/p>\n<p>Fairfax County Public Schools allocated federal coronavirus relief funds to reward teachers, bus drivers, and other staff, school board member Ricardy Anderson announced Friday. District teachers lobbied successfully to keep schools closed even after it was safe to reopen. Fairfax County did not return to a full in-person <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/education\/fairfax-county-schools-four-days\/2021\/04\/05\/c5ce80c0-963d-11eb-962b-78c1d8228819_story.html\">schedule<\/a> during the 2020-2021 school year.<\/p>\n<p>Dee O&#8217;Neal, a Fairfax County parent who leads the Open FCPS Coalition, said not all teachers deserve bonuses.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The union members who pushed to stay home are not deserving of this bonus,&#8221; O&#8217;Neal told the <em>Washington Free Beacon<\/em>. She said bonuses were appropriate for teachers who pushed to reopen schools and &#8220;whose voices were drowned out by the lazy asses who wanted to stay home.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Fairfax County Federation of Teachers was one of many teachers&#8217; unions across the country that used the pandemic for personal gain. The group secured a virtual option for all teachers during the 2020-2021 school year and demanded &#8220;proactive school closures&#8221; as part of its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fcft.org\/safe-reopening\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">demands<\/a> to reopen.<\/p>\n<p>Fairfax Education Association president Kimberly Adams said at a January school board meeting that students should <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/coronavirus\/virginia-teachers-union-students-must-be-vaccinated-before-schools-reopen\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">receive<\/a> the coronavirus vaccine before returning to the classroom, though the FDA only approved the Pfizer vaccine for students over the age of 12 in May.<\/p>\n<p>The Fairfax County School Board approved the district&#8217;s plan to spend the $188.6 million it received in federal Elementary and Secondary Schools Emergency Relief funds in July. In addition to the onetime bonuses for teachers, the district will use the money to fund coronavirus mitigation strategies and address pandemic-related learning loss. The district will also direct relief funds to increase bus driver wages to $22.91 per hour.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Campus Virginia&#8217;s largest school district did not fully reopen for the 2020-21 academic year  Getty Images  Alex Nester \u2022 August 31, 2021 4:59 am &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-702072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=702072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702072\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=702072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=702072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=702072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}