'Am I doing the right thing for students?' COVID-19 surges weighing on schools and teachers

In the past few weeks, parents of school-aged children have all had
the same experience of getting their kids ready for school. You
grab their backpack, their lunch, a snack and, for the third year
in a row, you grab their mask.  The COVID-19
variant omicron is twice as contagious as the delta
variant and at least four times as contagious as the first strain
we experienced in March 2020. Currently, the omicron
variant has resulted in the highest number of COVID-19 cases
Arizona has seen in months.  This has some parents nervous
about their K-12 children returning to class in 2022. But
schools that don’t return in person run the risk of losing school
funding. In this week's episode of The Gaggle, an Arizona politics
podcast, hosts Yvonne Wingett Sanchez and Ron Hansen talk
with Yana Kunichoff. She is the k-12 education reporter at the
Arizona Republic. She joins the podcast to dive into what is
going on within Arizona’s public school system about the
coronavirus, how schools are staying open and what that could
mean for parents and students moving forward. Later in the episode,
Yvonne Wingett Sanchez talks with Mark Joranstaad, executive
director of the Arizona Schools Administration, for a look on in
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