This subreddit is … Discuss New York travel with Tripadvisor travelers. 198402868E. Please be civil and empathetic. If the parents don't send their students, then you're not really opening the schools," he said.New York City, the largest school district in the United States with more than 1.1 million students and 1,800 public schools, is considering reopening with a hybrid model.It would see children spend somewhere between one and three days a week in the classroom, with the rest of the time spent learning online.A final decision on whether to reopen has not yet been taken.Many New York school children are from low-income families whose parents are essential workers and can ill afford to homeschool. Katie Anderson, an infectious disease clinicianDr. Lots of children also rely on free school meals.Only a handful of US school districts are planning to start the school year with any form of in-person teaching.On Wednesday, the mayor of Chicago, home to America's third-largest school district, announced that the city was dropping its hybrid plan and that all pupils would start the new school year remotely.New York City is the only large district hoping to get kids into the classroom.The state's school year is scheduled to start in September.Read the latest on the Covid-19 situation in Singapore and beyond on our Get The Straits Times app and receive breaking news alerts and more. David Larsen, an infectious disease epidemiologist ALBANY, N.Y. (NEWS10) — Five months since the first confirmed case of coronavirus New York, the state hit a record for most tests ever conducted in one day on Friday: 82,737. This subreddit seeks to monitor the spread of the disease COVID-19, declared a pandemic by the WHO. Until we resolve the issues, subscribers need not log in to access ST Digital articles. All rights reserved We have been experiencing some problems with subscriber log-ins and apologise for the inconvenience caused.