New York City Schools Will Be Fully In-Person in Fall, No Remote Learning

New York City public schools won’t offer remote learning this fall, requiring students to return to classrooms in September, Mayor Bill de Blasio said Monday.

Getting students and teachers back in the classrooms would be a major milestone in education as well as in reopening the city as it lifts a big barrier to people returning to the workplace.

About 582,000 students, or 61%, are still taking remote instruction at home, according to the latest estimates from the city’s Department of Education, and thousands of other students left the district entirely, causing a 4% drop in enrollment.

Mr. de Blasio said the DOE will invite parents to visit schools starting in June and through the whole summer, to show them what the agency has done to keep students safe and get them reacclimated.

About eight million people have been vaccinated in New York City. Mr. de Blasio said infection rates in schools have remained low “for months and months,” praising the way that the city’s schools have executed health and safety protocols for the students that have already returned to buildings this academic year.