New York City’s public elementary schools will return to partial in-person learning Dec. 7 — while middle- and high-schools students will have to wait, Mayor Bill de Blasio said Sunday.
Kids in pre-K programs and schools K-3 and K-5 will head back because there “is less concern about spread’’ of COVID-19 among them, while the demands of all-virtual learning on their parents are greatest, the mayor said.
Special-ed students will be allowed to return to hybrid learning Dec. 10.
But the mayor said it is unclear when the older students will return to hybrid learning.
“We look forward to the day we can reopen [the middle and high] schools. But we’re just not able to do that yet,’’ de Blasio said on a phone call with reporters.
Read more at NY Post.
{Matzav.com}
