This move by the Democratic Cuomo administration follows the recent dropping of other COVID-19 safety standards across the state, as part of a nationwide push to fully reopen the economy.
Created: May 24, 2021 10:51 PM
ROCHESTER, N.Y. (WHEC) The latest coronavirus news from the state includes a hopeful promise for students kept out of school.
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo now says he expects kids across the state “will” be back in class, in person, when school starts this fall.
“We have to get back to school,” he said in a Monday briefing.
In his comments, Cuomo celebrated improving coronavirus numbers and declared that, by September, it should be possible for all students, in all the state’s schools, to get back to in-person class, after months of mixed results online.
Cuomo: New York schools will reopen for full in-person learning this fall
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Gov. Andrew Cuomo says New York State schools will reopen for full in-person learning in the fall, as long as COVID-19 cases continue decreasing as expected.
Posted: May 24, 2021 3:36 PM
Updated: May 24, 2021 4:28 PM
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LONG ISLAND, N.Y. – Gov. Andrew Cuomo says New York State schools will reopen for full in-person learning in the fall, as long as COVID-19 cases continue decreasing as expected. Our children lost so much as COVID struck our state. A year of socialization, a year of memories, and even more,” said Cuomo. While teachers and school administrators did an incredible job pivoting to remote learning with virtually zero notice, there s no denying the discrimination students who did not have the right equipment faced.
WBFO s Albany correspondent Karen DeWitt reports.
On the first day of the new fiscal year, just one of ten budget bills has been approved.
New York State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli.
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The debt service bill was passed on the evening of March 31. Senate Finance Chair Liz Krueger could not say when the remaining nine might be ready for passage.
“We have quite a few budget bills remaining to get done,” Krueger said. “We don’t have them.”
Governor Andrew Cuomo has touted his track record of relatively on time budgets during his three terms in office, as a sign of a properly functioning state government.