Holyoke School Committee member Devin Sheehan is among those asking that Governor Baker make teachers a higher priority to receive the COVID-19 vaccine.
A letter signed by about 70 school board members including Sheehan, who is also running for Mayor in Holyoke, says students in urban and low-income school districts are being disproportionately impacted by the learning environment created by the virus.
In other coronavirus vaccine news in Western Massachusetts,
Springfield Mayor Domenic Sarno said during a pandemic briefing on Tuesday that the governor is soon expected to announce a mass vaccination site in the Springfield area.
And at the Holyoke Soldiers' Home, state officials said on Tuesday that veterans received their second doses of the vaccine.
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