Teacher Walkouts Are Unions’ Next Play After Courts OK Reopening

Teachers unions kicked off the 2020-21 school year with a flurry of lawsuits aimed at securing remote instruction, nearly all of which have failed as the U.S. enters its third coronavirus peak.

Their challenges to school reopening plans across the country have been rejected by judges reluctant to plunge into the political fight over Covid-19.

In Iowa, unions are taking their case to the state’s supreme court after two districts were denied injunctions that would have blocked Republican Gov. Kim Reynolds’ reopening order. And in Boston, they lost a bid for remote work before school officials backpedaled a reopening plan ...