Milwaukee requires school staff to be vaccinated and offers kids $100 to get the shot
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Milwaukee has become the latest school district to require all staff to be vaccinated. The decision was made during a special school board meeting Thursday and all school district employees will need to be vaccinated by November 11, according to a news release.
While the district will allow religious and medical exemptions, those individuals will be required to be tested for COVID-19 twice per week. This model follows several other major school districts and states, like New York City, where the mandate for school staff is even stricter. Testing won't be an acceptable alternative to the vaccine, CBS New York reports. Similarly, Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot announced last month that all Chicago Public School employees will need to be fully vaccinated by October 15, unless they qualify for a medical or religious exemption, CBS Chicago reported. Those with a vaccination exemption must be tested weekly throughout the school year.Ashley White received her earliest combat action badge from the United States Army soon after the first lieutenant arrived in Afghanistan. The silver military award, recognizing soldiers who've been personally engaged by an attacker during conflict, was considered an achievement in and of itself as well as an affirming rite of passage for the newly deployed. White had earned it for using her own body to shield a group of civilian women and children from gunfire that broke out in the midst of her third mission in Kandahar province. All of them survived. She never mentioned the badge to anyone in her battalion.
The knock at the door came at nighttime on Mother's Day 2008 in Oregon, where Jessica Ellis' parents lived. It was around 9:20 p.m. and his wife, Linda, was already in bed; her father Steve Ellis told CBS News, that he thought someone let their animals out — but two soldiers in Class A uniforms were standing at the door.