Hi, I'm Dan Premack, and welcome to Axios Recap, presented by Bridge Bank. Today's Monday, September 14th.

Oracle stock is up, air quality on the West Coast is down, and we're focused on schools as workplaces.

The big news here at my house is that my daughter is finally about to enter fourth grade this week, although a couple weeks later than expected, and not at all how I or she imagined it would be.

Two days inside the school building, albeit with only about half of her classmates, and then three days at home, learning through a laptop. This also means her teacher is about to adjust to a very new

normal, with fewer kids in the classroom, lots of protective equipment, and a need to address

very different learning and emotional needs than she's ever dealt with before.

Overall, around 37% of America's public school kids will start this year inside of schools,

in some form. As for public school teachers, there are around 3.3 million of them, around 8%

of which are over 60 years old. not to mention all the school administrators,

support staff, and other in-school employees. Today, we want to dig into how teachers are feeling

about their new workplace, particularly those who've already been back in the classroom for the

past several weeks. What's working? What's not? What's still needed? And what happens

if and when a vaccine becomes available? We do that in 15 seconds with Randy Weingarten,

President of the American Federation of Teachers. But first, this. We're joined now by Randy Weingarten, President of the American Federation of Teachers. This.

We're joined now by Randy Weingarten, President of the American Federation of Teachers.

So, Randy, some schools have been back for five weeks at this point.

From teachers' perspective, what have we learned about what does and doesn't work about in-person learning in a pandemic?

What we're unfortunately learning about in-person education is that those communities that had resources, like space, like private schools, they could tent up, they could open

outside. Rural areas could open outside as well. But you're seeing a lot of

inequity, particularly since we didn't get the resources that we needed from the federal government,

given all the cuts in schools. So you have some places that have had successful reopenings, but you've had most

places with a lot of concern about children's education and still a lot of concern about safety.

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