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New York City public schools are once again postponing the start of in-person learning, the mayor announced Thursday.
Mayor Bill de Blasio said 3-K, pre-K and District 75 special education schools will still reopen Monday.
However, K-5 and K-8 schools will stay remote until Sept. 29. Middle and high schools won’t reopen until Oct. 1.
Students will continue to learn remotely in the meantime.
The additional delay comes a day after CBS2 highlighted a Lower East Side school with broken windows that was previously approved for learning, teachers in the Bronx preparing to teach outside, and cries from teachers city wide about thermometers that don’t work, and the lack of personal protective equipment and cleaning supplies.
De Blasio said the decision came following an hours-long conversation with the principal and teacher unions.
“Yesterday morning, they reached out to me and they said they had real concerns about specific things that had to be done to make sure our schools could start effectively, start safely,” the mayor said. “Although they acknowledged that some real progress has been made, not enough had been made and more had to be done to make sure that things would be as strong as they needed to be.”
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Article URL : https://newyork.cbslocal.com/2020/09/17/nyc-schools-postpone-in-person-learning-again/