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What do you consider an acceptable mortality rate for schoolchildren? We came up with the same number.

Sacrificing the safety of children for political expediency is unacceptable. Schools need both accurate guidance and adequate funding to keep our children safe.

Carpe crisis

We need to act regionally as we rebuild. This pandemic, and the economic fallout, have shown us all how wide the gap is — in schools, in housing, in health care — between white and Black communities. We should seize this crisis, which coincides with a nationwide racial reckoning, to work together as a county to rebuild in a way that offers hope to those who most need it.

Leaning on the arc of history

Freedom isn’t a favor to be granted to deserving human beings; it’s a right.

The best way to respond to cries for help is with help

We urge our communities, and particularly the committees charged with reviewing police policy, to consider the sort of reform that would shift the sole responsibility for our safety and welfare from police to include other service providers like psychologists and social workers.

We should not demolish the sacred for the expedient

If we don’t respect what those before us built, we know less about our past and we look more like everywhere else in a massed-produced America.