The union representing New York City’s principals said on Sunday that it had lost confidence in Mayor Bill de Blasio’s plan to reopen schools and called on the state to seize control of the school system from the mayor, raising new obstacles in the city’s fraught reopening effort. The mayor has twice delayed the start of in-person classes, and the vast majority of the city’s 1.1 million students have already started the school year remotely. Hundreds of thousands of students are set to report back to classrooms this week, with elementary school children expected to start in-person classes on Tuesday, followed by middle and high school students on Thursday. Still, Mr. Cannizzaro said that principals would report to buildings as scheduled this week and were not considering a strike. “I think parents should be confident that any child that arrives at a building will be given the utmost care,” Mr. Cannizzaro said.

Source: New York Times September 27, 2020 18:00 UTC