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NEW JERSEY - Tens of thousands of students are returning to their classrooms this month for the first time since last year, Gov. Phil Murphy announced Monday.
More than 650 school districts in New Jersey are now open to in-person instruction at least partially, with 64,000 more students going back to in-person for the first time last week, Murphy said at a Monday news conference.
The sizable change comes after Murphy urged districts to reopen now.
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One-hundred-sixty-five school districts are now open for full-time in-person classes, while 496 school districts are open for hybrid instruction. Within those, 810,000 New Jersey students are currently learning under a hybrid model, an increase of 64,000 students since last week.
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Ruben Rivera, a math teacher at Barringer High School, waits in line to receive the vaccine at Barringer High School on Tuesday, March 16, 2021John Jones | For NJ Advance Media
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When Catia Nascimento goes back to teach in her East Side High School classroom in Newark on Monday the first time in over a year she’ll be wearing two masks and a face shield.
“My biggest concern is the well-being of our community,” said Nascimento, who along with her three kids contracted COVID in October. “And although I know we’re taking as much precaution as we can, I’m a little bit scared with the number of cases I’m seeing.”
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This Newark school building was shuttered in 2012. Now, it’s becoming a homeless shelter.
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Mayor Ras Baraka announces the conversion of a former school into a shelter on Miller Street in Newark on Thursday, February 25, 2021John Jones | For NJ Advance Media
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Miller Street Elementary School closed in 2012, but now officials expect the building to become transitional housing for men, women and families by September. The shelter will feature a commercial kitchen and drop-in center for people to use individual bathrooms, showers, laundry, phones and televisions.
“The drop-in center will serve as an opportunity for case managers to engage our shelter-averse population, build relationships and take the steps to build the trust that is necessary to engage them into services,” said Newark Homelessness Czar Sakinah Hoyte.
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Testing students for the coronavirus is poised to become the latest flashpoint as Newark prepares to reopen classrooms this spring.
The district has purchased air purifiers, desktop barriers, and hundreds of thousands of face masks, and is requiring teachers to test negative before returning to school buildings, which have been closed for nearly a year. But with in-person learning scheduled to resume in April, the district still hasn’t decided whether to test students for COVID-19 a safety measure that has been “under consideration” since the summer.