After primary schools and then colleges, the mayor of New York announced Monday that high schools in his city would be able to reopen their doors on March 22.
New York’s public high schools will reopen face-to-face on March 22, the mayor of America’s largest city, Bill de Blasio, announced on Monday. All of the city’s 448 high schools are expected to reopen, and about half of them will welcome all or most of their students face-to-face, five days a week. A proportion which should gradually increase.
“We are ready, we have all the elements we need to reopen the high schools, and reopen them properly, and of course safely,” said Bill de Blasio at a press conference on Monday.
Teachers will be back in high schools from March 18 to prepare classrooms to receive students, said Meisha Ross Porter, in charge of the city’s educational policy.
In New York, colleges have been able to reopen face-to-face since February 25, and elementary school students have been back at school since the fall of 2020. Meisha Ross Porter says the test positivity rate has risen. rises to 0.57% in New York public schools that are already open.
