In-person instruction returned to city public schools Dec. 7 with a plan that to some degree soothed parents of younger children but had yet to account for some of the students who might figure to benefit most from it: the roughly 100,000 special-education students who are not part of District 75 and middle-school students, a group that has long been regarded as the system's weak spot.
Even as Mayor de Blasio spoke Nov. 30 about the possibility of offering on-site classes to some students five days a week for the first time since mid-March, he had no dates for resuming any in-person instruction for those latter groups and city high-school students, except to say that "we're going to come back after the holidays [and] assess the situation then."
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