Councilmembers want school year delayed
With uncertainty remaining about the safety of reopening schools in September, City Council Education Chair Mark Treyger and 30 other councilmembers wrote a letter asking Mayor Bill de Blasio to delay in-person instruction.
“School starts in a matter of weeks, and yet school communities have not received answers to pertinent questions about reopening,” they wrote. “To date, the DOE has yet to provide an operational plan with guidelines to safely reopen the largest public school system in the nation serving 1.1 million students and their families.”
The letter voiced concerns about schools not having full-time nurses or enough PPE, custodians not being given appropriate cleaning materials, and students not receiving the proper tools and technology for remote learning.