Eric Adams’s First Big Task as Mayor: Reopening Schools in the New Year
The New York Times
New York City’s school system experienced by far the most chaotic and disrupted days of the fall semester this week, as virus cases rose across the city.
On Thursday morning, New York City’s students will file into their classrooms one last time before winter break, at the end of what was by far the most disrupted and chaotic week of the fall semester.
Perhaps the most pressing question for the incoming mayor, Eric Adams, is exactly how those nearly one million children and roughly 75,000 teachers will return on Jan. 3 for the start of the spring semester — just two days after Mr. Adams will be sworn in.
Children and staff members are set to head back to 1,600 schools across the city against the backdrop of a dramatic rise in virus cases driven by the Omicron variant, a surge that city officials have said will almost certainly worsen over the next few weeks.
