City School CEO Sonja Santelises announced at a press conference the addition of rapid tests to the multi-layered testing program the city already uses, and said the snowstorm would require her to bump back the return to schools for all students to Thursday, but a half dozen political leaders joined her to underscore the need to keep schools open in the face of the omicron variant.
Keeping students in schools will likely mean struggles with staffing shortages, quarantines, continued mandatory masking and a scarcity of rapid tests, but superintendents said prolonged shutdowns won’t be repeated.
Keeping students in schools will likely mean struggles with staffing shortages, quarantines, continued mandatory masking and a scarcity of rapid tests, but superintendents said prolonged shutdowns won’t be repeated.