Posted on 11/22/2020 6:10:58 PM PST by marshmallow
On Nov. 18, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced that public schools would “temporarily” suspend in-person classes.
MANHATTAN — Catholic schools in New York City will remain open for in-person learning on a school-by-school basis even as the city’s public schools have closed amid a new wave of the coronavirus pandemic.
“We intend to keep our buildings open regardless of decisions made by Mayor de Blasio regarding NYC public schools,” Superintendent Michael Deegan said in a Nov. 14 letter to parents of Catholic school students in the Archdiocese of New York.
When the letter was sent, there was expectation that New York’s public schools would soon close to in-person learning.
On Nov. 18, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced that public schools would “temporarily” suspend in-person classes.
The decision to suspend in-person learning in public schools was made after one set of data found that the city’s coronavirus test positivity rate was 3%. Metrics shared by Gov. Andrew Cuomo at a press conference Wednesday, however, stated that the city’s positivity rate was 2.5%, not yet at the anticipated threshold for school closure.
On Thursday, Cuomo was part of a bipartisan group of governors from the northeast who signed a statement calling in-person learning the “best possible scenario” for children.
“Our Catholic schools operate independently of New York City public schools,” said Deegan in his letter.
He said that if public schools were to close, the archdiocese’s schools “will remain open until the Health and Safety Task Force of the Office of the Superintendent, working with officials from the New York State Department of Health and the governor’s office determines otherwise.”
Deegan wrote that his schools would remain open “for as long as safety allows.”
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kids can only get covid in public schools not catholic schools
In Baltimore city and surrounding counties, Catholic schools are open. Public schools have not been open since last March. Very strong teachers union ... just keeping the children safe ... /s
The LA Unified Teachers’ Union announced - ‘we will not go back until POLICE ARE DEFUNDED.’ How does that make sense? I was told that here in Pasadena, Pasadena Unified ‘is just following what LA Unified has decided.’ That means the teachers’ union calls the shots, probably in this whole state. The unions own Sacramento, so I am not surprised. But is there no one with a spine? No scab substitute teachers who are willing to cross the picket line?
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