NYC schools reopen for in-person learning after systemwide COVID shutdown
It’s back to school again for thousands of New York City schoolchildren who returned to classrooms Monday after a roughly two-week shutdown spurred by the city’s rising coronavirus caseload.
Public school doors reopened for preschool students and children in kindergarten through fifth grade whose parents chose a mix of in-school and remote learning.
Miriam Petrovitch was among staffers welcoming children back at an elementary school on Manhattan’s Lower East Side.