‘There are lives at stake here’: Pols pan plan for NYC school reopening
The Department of Education is flunking when it comes to school reopening plans, city elected officials said Thursday — as the city’s biggest network of charter schools said it would remain online-only through December.
A recently announced plan to delay to the start of public school classes “may not be enough time for families, teachers and other school staff to prepare for this unprecedented school year,” Councilman Mark Treyger (D-Brooklyn) said at a Thursday hearing of the Council’s Education Committee.
He was pushing for a Council resolution calling on the city to hold off on reopening schools until extra safety precautions are implemented, although the measure is symbolic.
Earlier this week, Mayor de Blasio and the United Federation of Teachers agreed to push back the start of in-person learning from Sept. 10 to Sept. 21 in a deal including random mandatory COVID tests at public schools.
