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UFT: Virus Testing Key to Re-Opening Schools—And Not Until September

By CRYSTAL LEWIS
Posted 5/4/20

The United Federation of Teachers is calling for more testing: coronavirus testing, that is.

“New York State already requires that incoming students have a certificate of vaccination against more than a dozen diseases,” UFT President Michael Mulgrew wrote in a Daily News op-ed published April 29. “The state could expand this requirement by insisting that all students and staff who are planning on attending school be tested in August for active or prior exposure to the coronavirus.”

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