NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio to Keep Students Masked This Fall
Kyle Olson 12 Jul 2021
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio (D) said Monday that students will remain masked in school this Fall.
De Blasio bucked the recommendation from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and instead embraced the position of the teachers union.
“There will be a lot of communication before school and once it begins for now assume we are wearing masks,” de Blasio told reporters Monday, according to AMNY.
“But that could change as we get closer…we will be driven by the data and see what the science has to say,” he claimed.
“By the end of the school year positivity in the schools was almost non-existent… so we are going to keep a lot of those same pieces in place,” de Blasio said of the mask policy.
De Blasio did not address whether the CDC’s decision was “driven by the data” but the mayor’s position was consistent with the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), the parent group to New York City’s union, the United Federation of Teachers (UFT).
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