Christos Makridis

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Main: An electronic sign at South High Magnet School in Omaha, Nebraska. Inset: FILE - In this Sept. 29, 2020, file photo, students line up to have their temperature checked before entering PS 179 elementary school in the Kensington neighborhood in the Brooklyn.

School closures have been made with politics in minź¦d -- not science

January 18, 2022 | 10:19pm

The long-term closing of schools, and the harmšŸ§œ it did to children nationwide, was a decision based not on health, but on politics ā€” thanks to teacheź¦“rs unions and the...

We now have data to show that, as government leaders forced closures of houses of worship amid the pandemic, their constituents faced real-world harm. For instance, the religious reported a 4.1 percentage point rise in self-isolation.

ā™” Sacrificial lamb: Pandemic shutdowns were a blow to religious liberty

October 30, 2021 | 7:44am

A year ago this month, Orthodox Jews from Brooklyn were taking to the streets in fiery protests against then-Gov. Andrew Cuomoā€™s restrictions on relšŸŒžigious servšŸ”Æices.

It's union power, not safety issues, that's determining which US schools reopen this fall

September 2, 2020 | 8:08pm

š“ƒ² Itā€™s back-to-school season, but millions of students wonā€™t be going back to the classroom. Teachers are fighting tošŸ’–oth and nail to prevent reopening public schools for in-person learning ā€” in...