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UFT Launches Campaign to Ease Parents' Back-to-School Worries

By CRYSTAL LEWIS
Posted 7/23/21

The United Federation of Teachers is ringing in a door-knocking campaign to encourage families to feel comfortable with students returning to classrooms full-time in the fall.

Earlier this year, Mayor de Blasio announced a full return to in-person instruction, with no plans to offer online classes. For many students, September will mark the first time they’ve stepped foot inside a classroom since the beginning of the pandemic, since over 60 percent of the city’s 1 million public-school students participated in remote learning full-time during the past school year.

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