Massachusetts Teachers Unions Push to Delay Return to Classroom: ‘This Whole Process Is Being Rushed’

Massachusetts Teachers Unions Push to Delay Return to Classroom: ‘This Whole Process Is Being Rushed’
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Bill Pan
Bill Pan
Reporter
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The leaders of three teachers’ unions in Massachusetts are supporting an emergency legislation that would delay the school reopening for the state’s youngest students for another three weeks.

State Education Commissioner Jeffrey Riley, who heads the Bay State’s K-12 systems, has ordered school districts to bring students from pre-K to 5th grade back to classrooms for full-time instruction by April 5. Middle schools are scheduled to reopen on April 28.