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Jersey City students head back to school
Schools to gradually reopen for in-person instruction ×
District families protested Thursday morning despite the announced reopening in order to hold the school administration accountable.
Jersey City teachers will begin welcoming back young students on April 29 as public schools reopen for in-person learning.
The decision was a roller coaster ride for families as Superintendent Franklin Walker first announced in-person learning would resume on April 26, then announced via robocall it would not resume until the fall, before reversing that announcement again three days later via email.
The decision to reopen comes after the school administration faced criticism from a myriad of elected officials, including Mayor Steven Fulop and Governor Phil Murphy, and several parents planned protests.
Jersey City Superintendent Franklin Walker decided to reopen school just days after announcing it would remain in remote learning, so what changed in the time between the decisions?
About 80 people, mostly parents and their young children, attended the protest on a blustery morning on Claremont Avenue outside the Board of Education building.
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All spring, families who want their children to return to the classroom have been making and remaking plans because of the school district’s inability to come through on multiple promises. And students who haven’t set foot in a school building in more than a year, if ever, have had to deal with a constant stress of not knowing when their first day back will be.
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“During the course of the week there were a number of comments made based upon the district not having any reopening plan. And I really just want to clear things up,” Superintendent of Schools Franklin Walker said early on during last night’s nearly five-hour meeting.
“The district will reopen April the 29th. Students will return in groups by grade level. On 4/29 students Pre-K to grades 3 will return. On May the 10th, Grades 4 to 8 will return, and also on May 10th, grades 9-12, We will have two in-person cohorts, group A, and group B, and one complete remote cohort.”