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Monday, September 21, 2020

NYC: What they didn’t do: Let’s count Mayor de Blasio and Chancellor Richard Carranza’s school reopening failures



Mayor de Blasio and Schools Chancellor Richard Carranza didn’t think imaginatively about using outdoor space for teaching kids to stop the spread of a deadly contagion; it took goading from others for them to belatedly react.

They didn’t proactively design a smart plan for who would teach kids whose families opted for hybrid learning when they were at home. Instead, just weeks before the intended start of school, they and the teachers’ union agreed to have three separate sets of educators for the three jobs.

They didn’t swiftly bring aboard the additional teachers desperately needed for the new tasks, leaving principals across the city in the lurch.

They didn’t come up with a plan to test staff and students for coronavirus until they were pushed to the brink of a teachers’ strike...

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