Chalkbeat: Most New York City schools haven’t even been open a full week, and already Mayor Bill de Blasio’s plans have hit a major setback: He wants to shut down campuses as of Wednesday in nine ZIP codes where coronavirus positivity rates had surpassed 3% over at least the past seven days.
The closures, which de Blasio announced Sunday, would affect about 100 public schools in Far Rockaway, Southern Brooklyn, and Central Queens neighborhoods. Some 200 private schools in those areas are also slated to close, including many yeshivas in Orthodox Jewish communities that have been particularly hard hit in the recent uptick of COVID-19 cases.
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