{"id":1185337,"date":"2022-01-04T00:04:32","date_gmt":"2022-01-04T05:04:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1185337"},"modified":"2022-01-04T00:04:35","modified_gmt":"2022-01-04T05:04:35","slug":"mayor-adams-defies-teachers-unions-will-keep-nyc-schools-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mayor-adams-defies-teachers-unions-will-keep-nyc-schools-open\/","title":{"rendered":"Mayor Adams Defies Teachers Unions, Will Keep NYC Schools Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmayor-adams-defies-teachers-unions-will-keep-nyc-schools-open%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1185337&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/NYC-Mayor-Eric-Adams-at-a-School-640x335-1.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D) announced that public schools would remain open amid increasing coronavirus cases, in a move defying teachers\u2019 unions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe want to be extremely clear. The safest place for our children is in a school building, and we are going to keep our schools open,\u201d Adams&nbsp;<a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/gothamist.com\/news\/we-are-going-keep-our-schools-open-adams-promises-covid-cases-shatter-records\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a>&nbsp;at an elementary school on Monday.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u201cWe want to be extremely clear. The safest place for our children is in a school building. And we are going to keep our schools open \u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NYC Mayor Eric Adams (D) <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/GcMJOXpWI9\">pic.twitter.com\/GcMJOXpWI9<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Recount (@therecount) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/therecount\/status\/1478005039822168065?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 3, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Adams\u2019s decision is aligned with his predecessor, former Mayor William de Blasio, who announced a plan to reopen schools with additional protocols in his final week in office.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know there are questions about staffing. I know there are questions about testing. But we\u2019re going to change those question marks to an exclamation point. We\u2019re staying open,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/gothamist.com\/news\/we-are-going-keep-our-schools-open-adams-promises-covid-cases-shatter-records\">said<\/a> Adams.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Although de Blasio\u2019s plan was unveiled last week, The United Federation of Teachers (UFT) asked Adams to delay in-person classes for one week. The UFT\u2019s concerns about returning to schools were due to potential staffing shortages caused by the coronavirus.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur concern is staffing for the next couple days, because we don\u2019t know what\u2019s going to happen today in terms of the number of adults who are going to go to work, because we know that this variant is quite pervasive,\u201d&nbsp;<a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ny1.com\/nyc\/all-boroughs\/news\/2022\/01\/03\/mayor-eric-adams-schools-covid-omicron-testing-latest\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a>&nbsp;UFT president Michael Mulgrew.<\/p>\n<p>Only one public school in New York City elected not to hold classes this week. P.S. 58 in Carroll Gardens was not open Monday because of staffing shortages.<\/p>\n<p>However, Adams\u2019s School Chancellor, David Banks, who&nbsp;<a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/12\/22\/eric-adams-edu-pick-to-overhaul-fundamentally-flawed-school-system\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">vowed<\/a>&nbsp;to overhaul the city\u2019s \u201cfundamentally flawed\u201d school system, is not yet worried about staffing issues.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u201dWe\u2019re monitoring all the staffing issues,\u201d Banks&nbsp;<a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"http:\/\/monitoring\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a>. \u201cAll indications are that we\u2019re in a pretty good place right now, and we\u2019ll make any adjustments that are necessary.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As part of the conditions for keeping schools open, coronavirus testing among students will be increased. Twenty percent of vaccinated and unvaccinated students and staff will be tested at random. Previously just 10 percent of unvaccinated students were tested at random.<\/p>\n<p>There is no testing mandate yet, but officials encouraged individuals to get tested before entering campuses.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, Adams altered the schools\u2019 quarantine rules. When a student tests positive, the rest of the class will receive rapid at-home tests. An asymptomatic student may return to class the day after a negative test result.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D) announced that public schools would remain open amid increasing coronavirus cases, in a move defying teachers\u2019 unions. \u201cWe want to be extremely clear. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1185337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1185337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1185337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1185337\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1185337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1185337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1185337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}