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NYC students of color less likely to return to school buildings this year: poll
Low-income families and parents of color are more skeptical than their white and affluent peers about their schools’ safety plans, even as positivity rates remain low.
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Eliza Shapiro
With the notable exception of low transmission in schools, school reopening is so far playing out in the opposite way of what de Blasio said/hoped would happen.
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Only 26% of N.Y.C. Students Attend In-Person Classes, Far From Goal
Mayor Bill de Blasio is facing a major test: Will children return to public schools over the next few weeks?
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Eliza Shapiro
Here's where we are in the NYC school reopening saga - just a quarter of city kids have actually returned to classrooms. The mayor initially believed that number would be closer to 75%.
City is facing a huge test: will kids opt back in next month?
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NYC has yet to release attendance data for this school year
Some teachers say many students aren’t showing up for classes.
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Eliza Shapiro
Essential point here - the school reopening debate in NYC was focused almost exclusively on safety. Schools are now open with extremely low virus transmission. But we don't have a sense of how much kids are actually learning.
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Were The Risks Of Reopening Schools Exaggerated?
New research has found few links between in-person K-12 schooling and COVID-19 case rates. "There is no consistent pattern," one study author said.
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Eliza Shapiro
"It's not that closing schools leads to a decrease in cases, or that opening schools leads to a surge in cases."
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NYC students in homeless shelters still can’t get on the internet even after city switches cellular providers: advocates
Advocates and shelter residents say the plan to improve cellular data still isn’t working in at least four shelters that are service dead zones — and argue installing WiFi is the only long-term solution.
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Eliza Shapiro
It is just astonishing that many homeless shelters in NYC still don't have WiFi - making it even harder for kids to learn remotely, for their parents to apply for jobs and permanent housing. Insanity.
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Bright Spot for N.Y.C.: In Schools, Only 18 Positives Out of 10,676 Tests
The absence of outbreaks, if it holds, suggests that the city’s efforts to return children to classrooms could serve as an influential model for the nation.
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Eliza Shapiro
It's far too early to call school reopening a success in NYC, and getting enough parents to allow their kids to get tested could be a big problem, but - this is still encouraging news, via @danarubinstein and @jdavidgoodman
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New York Becomes the First Big City to Reopen All Its Schools
It’s a significant moment for the recovery in a city hit hard by the pandemic in the spring. The system, the nation’s largest, is welcoming back 500,000 students.
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Eliza Shapiro
Despite nearly half of students opting out of in-person classes for now, there are more kids back in NYC schools today than there are students in *any* public school district in America, except for LA.
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‘A Battle for the Souls of Black Girls’
Discipline disparities between Black and white boys have driven reform efforts for years. But Black girls are arguably the most at-risk student group in the United States.
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Eliza Shapiro
@EricaLG has made her mission to get children who are too often ignored on the front page of the NYT. She keeps doing just that. She is a force of nature and one of the very finest journalists anywhere. Always read everything she writes.
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Elementary Schools Reopen in Person, in Milestone for N.Y.C.
About 300,000 children returned to classrooms for the first time since March as the city’s test positivity rate edged upward.
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Eliza Shapiro
The first day of elementary school just ended, and we're now back to talking about school closures.
The city's teachers union just said that NYC should close ~80 public schools in areas where the virus is surging if the numbers don't go down.
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The Students Left Behind by Remote Learning
The desire to protect children may put their long-term well-being at stake.
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Eliza Shapiro
I was crying by the 4th graf. Thank you, @AlecMacGillis, for actually writing about what kids are going through. Whatever you think about reopening, we all have to confront the truth that so many children are not okay. Somehow, that has gotten lost.
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Principals Assail N.Y.C. Mayor, Calling for State Takeover of Schools
The union representing New York City’s principals said it had lost confidence in Mayor Bill de Blasio’s plan to reopen schools.
‘All Eyes Are on New York’: Can It Pull Off Hybrid Learning in Schools?
The model seems like a promising way to provide socially distanced instruction in classrooms. But will it actually work?
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Eliza Shapiro
De Blasio declined again this morning to say how many more teachers the city needs to fully staff schools before they open in a few days. City may have to hire 1000s of people by next week.
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Desus Nice Drinks Green Juice Now
A Bodega Boy levels up in lockdown.
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Eliza Shapiro
The best thing I've read about New York during this whole dumb thing: "He misses...'that feeling you get at 4 a.m. on a Friday night in the Second Ave station when you’re waiting for the train and the garbage train comes instead.'"
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N.Y.C. Warns About Rising Virus Cases in Hasidic Neighborhoods
Officials see a worrisome indicator in several parts of Brooklyn and Queens after a couple of months of declining or flat transmission.
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Eliza Shapiro
If these numbers in Hasidic neighborhoods keep surging, the city could reach a 3 percent average positivity rate relatively quickly, which would shut down the entire public school system.
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Finally, Some Students Return to New York City’s Classrooms
Up to 90,000 children in pre-K and students with advanced disabilities can go back to in-person school on Monday.
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Eliza Shapiro
NYC students go back to school today - mostly online - following 6 months of shuttered school buildings and many weeks of tumult over school reopening.
Unlike most other big districts in America, some NYC kids are back in classrooms as of this AM.
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Eliza Shapiro
A few hours into the first day of school, we're seeing a lot of Zoom issues and some confusion at schools: Balayet Hossain and his 2 daughters, in K and 1st grade, showed up to school in BK bc they thought it was the first day. They had to go back home.
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How N.Y.C.’s Mayor Ignored Warnings and Mishandled Reopening Schools
Mayor Bill de Blasio delayed the start of school for a second time, leading to an uproar among parents.
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Eliza Shapiro
Yes, the mayor did not listen to warnings from principals and teachers about the school staffing crisis that led to yesterday's delay.
But he also brushed aside worries from his own staff, scrambling to make reopening work, about the exact same issues.
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How N.Y.C.’s Plan to Open Schools Fell Apart
Mayor Bill de Blasio canceled the start of in-person classes for the country’s largest school system just three days before they were set to begin, sowing even more confusing among parents and educators.
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Eliza Shapiro
Dozens of principals proposed almost the exact plan that the mayor laid out yesterday -- in early August. How it all went sideways
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Eliza Shapiro
For many parents and educators in New York City, this is the right plan, announced at the absolute worst time.
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N.Y.C. Will Again Delay Start of In-Person Classes for Most Students
The city had scheduled classes to start on Monday. Now, it will phase students back on a rolling basis, beginning with pre-K.
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Eliza Shapiro
Here's the first cut at this story: nytimes.com/2020/09/17/nyr…
Much more to come
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Eliza Shapiro
Email from a city principal just now: “I am so sorry to have to report a last minute change in the school schedule. This was actually announced on Twitter before principals were informed, so you may already be aware of this change.”
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Eliza Shapiro
Here's our full story on today's huge NYC schools news. I've been on this beat since 2012 and never seen parents and educators so furious.
“A punch in the gut.”
“It’s such a slap in the face."
"Get it together."
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N.Y.C. Parents Are Exhausted. But Will They Send Their Children to School?
So far, nearly 40 percent of families have opted to have their children learn fully remotely when public schools reopen on Sept. 21.
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Eliza Shapiro
Getting quite close to an even 50/50 split between parents who choose in-person classes in NYC and those who are opting out. As of Friday, 42 percent of the city's 1.1 million students will learn at home through at least November.
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These Families Feel Forgotten as N.Y.C. Pushes to Open Schools
Months of remote learning have taken a harsh toll on New York City’s roughly 114,000 homeless students and their families.
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Eliza Shapiro
Homeless families have been trying for months to get their kids logged on for remote classes. Seven months into the pandemic, and 3 weeks into the school year, many kids still can't participate.
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Eliza Shapiro
"We're kind of overlooked."
After a largely failed experiment in remote learning, NYC's 114,000 homeless children are still struggling to get what they need from online and in-person school, with the first day of classes just a week out.
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Eliza Shapiro
Thinking right now of these families, absolutely desperate for clarity on schools, who were rearranging their schedules as housekeepers and community college students according to the days they *thought* their children would be in school.
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