Gov. Hochul: We Are Keeping Schools Open

EXCERPT:

HOCHUL: "We'll be sending a lot of testing kits to schools, and here's why: we are keeping our schools open. Let me repeat that: We are keeping schools open because we're dealing with a very different variant at this time. We believe that it's critically important that our children not end up in that same situation they were for so many months, when they were so displaced from their normal environment, they did not get the quality of education, despite the best efforts of those incredible teachers and parents who struggled every single day alongside their children just to deal with these circumstances we dealt with last time. We're in a different environment, a different circumstance. And so part of our winter surge plan is we are committed to keeping our schools open. And so, we wanted to make sure that school districts will follow the test-to-stay protocols and make sure that they're no longer required to have a PCR test for kids to return, but just a rapid test.”