Will Classroom Social Distancing Rules Change?
If the C.D.C. relaxes its rule requiring students in classrooms to be six feet apart, more districts could bring students back full time. But teachers’ unions are wary.
March 17, 2021
Will three be the new six?
The director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Monday that the agency might revise its guidance calling for at least six feet of distancing between students in schools in areas with high coronavirus transmission. But one major stakeholder, the American Federation of Teachers, is staunchly opposed to changing the guidance now and plans to try to persuade the agency not to do so.
In New York City, as in much of the rest of the country, the pandemic made the golden after-school hours from 3 to 6 p.m. go dark, but now there is hope as schools reopen.
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