ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. – Orange County Public Schools superintendent and Florida’s largest teachers union are asking Gov.
Ron DeSantis to allocate coronavirus vaccines for school employees.OCPS Superintendent Dr. Barbara Jenkins sent a letter to DeSantis Thursday asking him to include K-12 essential school district employees who are in direct contact with students on his list of priority groups to receive the vaccine.Frontline health care workers and long-term care facility residents and staff are the first groups who began receiving the Pfizer vaccine shots earlier this week.
DeSantis has said he wants LTC facilities to be fully vaccinated within four weeks.Jenkins asked the governor to consider educators and other school employees as part of.