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Education Department officials are expecting that slide to continue into next school year, predicting a drop from 790,000 students in 2021-2022 to 760,000 next fall.
Displacement is “demoralizing” says one teacher departing from a Brooklyn middle school. On Friday, City Council members grilled education officials about why they’re shrinking needed resources.
Michael Loccisano / Getty Images School communities across New York City are growing increasingly concerned about Mayor Bill de Blasio’s lack of concrete details for the fall. Whether families hope to remain fully remote, or their children are already back in school five days a week — a situation enabled by having the majority of students still learning exclusively from home — they want more clarity on what next school year will look like. Principals and other administrators, however, are in a holding pattern. Without more guidance on social distancing, remote learning, and medical acco...