Education Trust-New York Releases Statement on State Education Department Guidance for Reopening
July 17, 2020
July 17, 2020
NEW YORK, July 17 -- The Education Trust-New York issued the following statement on July 16 by Executive Director Ian Rosenblum:
"Alongside the paramount issues of health and safety, a responsible plan for reopening New York's schools must address the reality that school closures worsened pre-existing educational inequities and recognize the 'dual pandemics' of COVID-19 and the nation's reckoning with systemic racism that are already shaping the upcoming school year.
"Alongside the paramount issues of health and safety, a responsible plan for reopening New York's schools must address the reality that school closures worsened pre-existing educational inequities and recognize the 'dual pandemics' of COVID-19 and the nation's reckoning with systemic racism that are already shaping the upcoming school year.