The Atlanta school board passed a resolution this week calling on Gov. Brian Kemp to prioritize COVID-19 vaccinations for teachers. The move comes after some district superintendents and the Professional Association of Georgia Educators also wrote letters to the governor urging him to do the same.
Teachers are scheduled to get vaccines in the state’s second round of inoculations, called group 1B. The board’s resolution asks the governor to move teachers into group 1A, the first tier which includes health care workers and seniors over the age of 65.
Kemp wrote a letter to the board, saying he’d like to include teachers in the first group, but the state’s vaccine supply is too low.
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