The union representing New York City’s public-school teachers said its members would not return to classrooms next month unless the city met their health and safety demands – including testing all students and staff for that coronavirus and ensuring all schools have a nurse.
The announcement from the United Federation of Teachers (UFT), which represents 75,000 professionals, comes a week after Mayor Bill de Blasio announced that schools would reopen Sept. 10 for in-person classes, saying he believed the city’s low positivity rate would allow for students to return safely. The city, once the nation’s epicenter of the pandemic, has a positive test rate of less than one-quarter of 1%, the mayor said Wednesday.
(Boston.com, August 19, 2020)
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