New York to fully reopen its schools in September with no remote option

New York, May 24 (EFE) .- The city of New York, which has the largest educational system in the US with more than one million students, will completely reopen its public schools in September without the remote option that has been offered in the last year due to the covid-19 pandemic, as announced this Monday by the mayor, Bill de Blasio.
This was said in an interview on the “Morning Joe” program of the MSNBC channel, assuring that the coronavirus figures “are collapsing” in the Big Apple and that “you cannot have a full recovery without schools at full capacity, with everything the world sitting in class and children learning again. ”
With 60% of the New York public system students currently receiving classes remotely from their homes, De Blasio said that, when in doubt, parents will be able to go to the centers as of June to see the security protocols that are applied and defended that his administration has established a “gold standard”.
The mayor is expected to offer more details this morning at a press conference with the city’s education officer.
New York is one of the first major cities in the US to announce the end of remote teaching in its public schools, although many others are expected to make similar decisions.
In recent weeks, states such as New Jersey, Connecticut and Massachusetts had already reported that the next course will be completely face-to-face for students and faculty.
According to many experts, remote classrooms have been far from ensuring an adequate education in most of the United States, and it is estimated that up to three million students have dropped out of their education entirely in the past year, with children from low-income families and minorities especially affected.

–