New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said on Thursday that he plans to reopen schools in September at "full steam ahead" with “the maximum number of kids in our schools as we begin.”
Schools that do not have the space to social distance will be required to open with a staggered schedule and mandatory face masks.
“We know the sheer logistical challenges with schools that were overcrowded before the coronavirus and now have to practice social distancing,” de Blasio added.
The Hill reports:
De Blasio and New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) have frequently sparred over which one of them has jurisdiction over school closures, with Cuomo announcing the decision rested with the state after de Blasio said in April that schools would be closed for the remainder of the school year.
Michael Mulgrew, president of the United Federation of Teachers, told Bloomberg the union will not go along with de Blasio's plan unless he can guarantee it will not result in further outbreaks of the virus.
The comment comes less than a week after Mulgrew said in a New York Daily News op-ed that safely reopening in the fall would be logistically impossible without further federal funds.
“The average classroom in New York City public schools is only about 800 square feet. No more than 10 children — one-half to one-third of the normal class size — can fit into such a space while observing the social distance recommended by the Centers for Disease Control,” Mulgrew wrote.
“To safely re-open, most schools will have to create two or even three cohorts of children who would rotate between in-school and remote instruction on a regular basis,” Mulgrew added. “This will create major logistical challenges for food service, transportation and cleaning services, not to mention huge child-care problems for thousands of families as adults return to the workplace.”
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