NYC mayor: Public schools will be all in person this fall
Mayor Bill de Blasio says New York City schools will be all in person this fall with no remote options
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Your support makes all the difference.New York City schools will be all in person this fall with no remote options, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced Monday.
“We can’t have a full recovery without full-strength schools, everyone back, sitting in those classrooms, kids learning again," de Blasio said on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.”
The roughly 1 million students who attend traditional public schools will be in their classrooms with some version of the coronavirus protocols that have been in place in the current academic year, including mask wearing and COVID-19 testing, de Blasio said.
“It’s time. It’s really time to go full strength now,” he said.
After closing schools in March 2020, New York City was one of the first large U.S. cities to reopen school buildings in the fall of that year, but the majority of parents chose online-only learning for their children.