Students in N.Y.C. return to classrooms as health screening site crashes

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A majority of New York City public school students returned for in-person learning for the first time in 18 months, as the school district's Health Screening website experienced a temporary outage.

of the coronavirus have left some parents and politicians to push back at the full return, preferring to wait until children younger than 12 can also be vaccinated. About 600,000 families of students opted to keep their children learning remotely during the last school year.Brendan McDermid / Reuters

De Blasio said if there's any kind of exposure in a school, those who are vaccinated and not exhibiting any symptoms will not have to quarantine and will remain in school per the federal government guidelines. The mayor added that close to 80 percent of all New York City adults have got at least one dose of a Covid vaccination.

"That is game-changing," he told reporters, adding that he doesn't expect the same amount of classroom closings and disruptions as last year. Unlike in other states, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul, a Democrat, has called for a mask mandate in all schools for"anyone who enters a school building."While New York's leaders are optimistic that an academic year with little disruption and as close to normal as possible is attainable, school districts in other states with higher cases of Covid and lower vaccination rates are already facing their own chaotic school years.

 

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