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#Remote-only school requests surge days before classes begin

#Remote-only school requests surge days before classes begin

September 14, 2020 | 5:29pm

The number of New York  parents asking that their kids only attend class remotely this year has jumped past 40 percent just days before the start of the new COVID-19-battered academic year, the Department of Education said Monday.

A total of 422,190 — or 42 percent — of city kids have now opted for the format, new numbers show.

The remote-only requests have risen by 158,000 in the past four weeks, according to DOE figures.

That compares to the 579,698 students — or roughly 58 percent — who are now planning to  alternate between attending class inside their school’s building and remote instruction.

That’s down sharply from 74 percent in mid-August.

Mayor de Blasio has staunchly backed a partial reopening of city schools, arguing that working parents need scheduling relief and that kids will benefit from building instruction.

After weeks of negotiation, Hizzoner struck a deal with the United Federation of Teachers this month that established a framework for a return to classrooms in the nation’s largest school district.

But union chief Michael Mulgrew said Monday that City Hall was failing to uphold central elements of the agreement and that he did not think schools were ready to resume operation next Monday.

Mulgrew said staffing concerns for the new year have yet to be adequately addressed and that principals do not have nearly enough teachers to meet their imminent needs.

“We are having a major staffing challenge in our school system right now,” he said in a press conference. “We’ve been talking about this for weeks.”

He also urged the DOE to shore up its testing and tracing procedures in schools with confirmed COVID-19 cases.

Roughly 21 percent of city teachers applied for and were granted coronavirus exemptions that will allow them to work exclusively from home this upcoming year.

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