New York City will not reopen K-12 classrooms on Sept. 21, but will delay K-5 and K-8 schools until Sept. 29 and middle and high schools until Oct. 1 due to coronavirus risks, Mayor Bill de Blasio said. Thursday.
Until then, students will continue with distance learning, which began Wednesday.
“Obviously, remote learning has already begun. … We are doing this to ensure that all the standards we set can be achieved,” de Blasio said during a news conference. “We have to have social distance in schools, clean up constantly, face the same cover for students and adults.”
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This is not New York City’s first delay. In early September, de Blasio delayed reopening classrooms until Sept. 21 in a deal struck with the city’s powerful organizations representing teachers, staff and administrators.
Richard Karenza, Chancellor of the New York City Department of Education, and Mayor Bill de Blasio carried the bins with supplies during a news conference on August 19, 2020 at New Bridge Elementary School in Brooklyn Borough, New York. (Bloomberg by Gina Moon Getty Images)
“This is a big undertaking,” de Blasio said, adding that the school system would hire 2,500 additional teachers as well as employ 2,000 more.
Thursday’s delay will not affect early education sites and special education, De Blasio said.
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The development comes after months of de Blasio insisting that the city’s 1.1 million public school students were forced to plunge into the abyss of distance education in March, this fall, requiring schools to start instructing individuals individually. The last day of class instruction for New York City students was March 13th. All schools across the state were closed by March 18.
Daniel Valce Les of Fox News contributed to this report.
