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Bill de Blasio is the mayor of a primary city to plan face-to-face learning for students. The Democratic National Convention began with a scathing complaint about President Trump’s handling of the pandemic.
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Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern of New Zealand rejected President Trump’s statement that his country is experiencing a “strong rise” of cases.
As the first day of school approaches rapidly in New York, Mayor Bill de Blasio faces increasing pressure from teachers, principals, and even members of his own city’s administration to delay the start of face-to-face training in order to provide educators have more time to prepare.
De Blasio hoped to reopen the country’s largest part-time school formula for 1.1 million schoolchildren in the city on September 10. No other mayor of the city is looking to reopen at this scale, and many small districts that have already reopened have had to replace the course. particularly after the return of the scholars.
In Arizona, where the virus exploded before this summer, many students started school on Monday. But the Olympics. The Combs Unified School District, approximately an hour outdoors in Phoenix, canceled until Wednesday after a significant number of teachers and staff were called for health problems to protest classes in person, and it is unclear when and how the school year can begin. There.
Near Oklahoma City, an angry student at Westmoore High School sported elegance last week before the end of its quarantine, NBC News reported, claiming that the child’s parents had told the school that they had “miscalculated” the time. Twenty-two academics who contacted this student or student at the school who tested positive here were quarantined.
And in Cherokee County, Georgia, which in the middle of last week ordered the quarantine of approximately 1,200 academics and school staff, a third high school closed to in-person learning this week after 500 of its academics were quarantined and 25 tested positive for the virus.
However, the closest comparison to New York is perhaps Los Angeles, the largest school formula in the country right now. There, public schools introduced a great program on Monday to control thousands of academics and teachers: the Los Angeles Unified School District will begin their online studies for now.
If New York can safely reopen schools, it would be a normal change for a city that was the global epicenter of the pandemic just a few months ago. Schools are the key to the long road back to the city: opening study rooms would help revive the economy they are suffering by allowing more parents to return to paint and provide the facilities they desperately need to tens of thousands of vulnerable students.
But the preference to reopen on time now faces its greatest impediment to date: city leaders wonder if the city is ready.
“We are now less than a month away from the first day of school and we still don’t have enough answers to many of the protection and training issues we’ve raised,” Mark Cannizzaro, president of the city’s directors’ union, wrote in a letter last week. .
New York City has such a low rate of virus transmission that it is closer to that of South Korea than many U.S. cities, and many public fitness experts agree that the city’s infection rate is low enough to reopen at least some schools.
Public school principals in the city say they know how many of their students will show up in buildings on the first scheduled day, as there is no deadline for families to move from hybrid learning to distance learning alone. So far, about 30% of families in the city have said they will start the year remotely, but that number can drastically replace.
This has made it almost more unlikely that principals will plan their class schedules and how many teachers will want to provide distance education, in-person learning, or both.
And while the city has begun sending protective appliances and non-public cleaning products to schools, and has made progress in preparing several of its old buildings for reopening, there are doubts about the number of study rooms that will be well ventilated and how staff and students will be evaluated after they open the buildings.
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