New York City on Sept. 13 opened its classroom doors to nearly 1 million students, many of whom are returning for the first time since March 2020, when the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus pandemic prompted the nation’s largest public school system to close.
Just about 40 percent of New York City’s public school students went back into their classrooms this spring, after city officials allowed families to opt between remote or in-person learning. In a change of course, however, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced in May that the remote option would no longer be available in the fall, and that all students would attend school in-person, with few exemptions for those with certain medical conditions.
