{"id":161803,"date":"2021-01-24T04:27:52","date_gmt":"2021-01-24T01:27:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/nyc-does-too-little-covid-testing-to-open-schools-teachers-union\/"},"modified":"2021-01-24T04:27:52","modified_gmt":"2021-01-24T01:27:52","slug":"nyc-does-too-little-covid-testing-to-open-schools-teachers-union","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/nyc-does-too-little-covid-testing-to-open-schools-teachers-union\/","title":{"rendered":"#NYC does too little COVID testing to open schools: teachers’ union"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#NYC does too little COVID testing to open schools: teachers’ union<\/strong>”
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The city will not be able to open its middle- and high schools because it lacks sufficient\u00a0ability to test students and staff for COVID-19, the leader of the teachers\u2019 union says.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThe city is barely managing all the aspects of the current random testing program and tracing requirements,\u201d\u00a0Michael Mulgrew, president of the United Federation of Teachers, said in a statement to The Post.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey are not prepared to handle any additional schools.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

After closing all schools for three weeks, the city Department of Education in December reopened only elementary schools for grades K to 5 and District 75 schools for children with disabilities, offering in-person classes up to five days a week.<\/p>\n

In doing so, the DOE agreed to test 20 percent of students and staff in\u00a0850 schools and early childhood education centers once a week. Kids and employees testing positive for COVID-19 are sent home to quarantine, and classrooms or buildings are closed for as long as 10 days.<\/p>\n

But middle and high schools stayed shut, conducting all instruction remotely.<\/p>\n

Mulgrew\u2019s comments indicated those schools for grades 6 to 12 may not reopen for the rest of the school year until testing can ramp up significantly.<\/p>\n

DOE spokesman Nathaniel Styer\u00a0said the city is aiming to do so.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are consistently testing beyond the 20 percent threshold each week.\u00a0By every measure, our app<\/a>roach is working, as New York City remains the only major school system to offer in-person instruction to hundreds of thousands of children,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe look forward to adapting our successful testing model to serve our middle and high school students as quickly as possible.\u201d<\/p>\n

Styer would not estimate a date for a further reopening.<\/p>\n

Mulgrew told the Wall Street Journal l<\/a>ast week that the looming vaccine shortage, affecting educators and other essential workers, may further jeopardize efforts to return schools to normal any time soon.\n <\/div>\n

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“#NYC does too little COVID testing to open schools: teachers’ union” The city will not be able to open its middle- and high schools because it lacks sufficient\u00a0ability to test students and staff for COVID-19, the leader of the teachers\u2019 union says.\u00a0 \u201cThe city is barely managing all the aspects of the current random testing…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":161804,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/01\/Michael-Mulgrew-1.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1200","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[90518,70344,71872,74212,72940],"class_list":["post-161803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-1-23-21","tag-coronavirus-in-ny","tag-michael-mulgrew","tag-public-schools","tag-united-federation-of-teachers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161803\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/161804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}