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Educational CyberPlayGround NetHappenings: K12 Covid
Red states fund tax cuts with covid funds Few young children have been vaccinated so far
Since June 18, about 267,180 children younger than 5 have received their first coronavirus shot, according to newly published data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention . That is a tiny fraction of the nearly 19 million kids in that age group who are newly eligible to receive the vaccine.
On July 1, First Lady Dr. Jill Biden visited a health clinic in Henrico County, Virginia, encouraging parents to vaccinate all children from six months to five years of age against COVID-19 (First Lady’s remarks).
The Secretaries of Education and Health and Human Services also issued a new Dear Colleague Letter, calling on early childhood education programs to help get more young children vaccinated.
And today, at 2:00 p.m. Eastern Time, Secretary Cardona, White House COVID Response Coordinator Dr. Ashish Jha, and experts from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will discuss the importance of improving air quality in schools. Register in advance. A Zoom link will be shared after registering.
This week, the Department released proposed regulations that would expand and improve the major student loan discharge programs authorized by the Higher Education Act (HEA). These regulations propose to alleviate student loan debt burdens for borrowers whose institutions closed or misled them, for those who are totally and permanently disabled, and for eligible workers who have met their commitments under the Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) program. The regulations also propose stopping many instances of interest capitalization and giving borrowers their day in court if they have disputes with their schools (press release and fact sheet).
The regulations will be open for comment for 30 days from the date of publication in the Federal Register.
Examining State Bills on Data Brokers
Data brokers’ unregulated buying and selling of Americans’ data on the open market continues to make headlines. Vice reported in May, for example, that data broker SafeGraph was openly selling GPS data on people visiting abortion clinics (the company has since claimed it stopped providing location pattern data for sale and for access through its API).
“Problematically, the laws in California and Vermont do not put any meaningful controls on companies selling, licensing or otherwise sharing Americans’ sensitive #data on the open market”