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From: The Albany Times Union Editorial Board
One could almost detect a faint “nyah-nyah” between the lines of last Thursday’s announcement that, now that Gov. Andrew Cuomo has lost his sweeping pandemic emergency powers, school districts are on their own when it comes to reopening in September. So there.
Health Commissioner Howard Zucker didn’t put it quite that way, of course. Instead, he couched his abdication of duty in more bureaucratic terms, issuing a statement that “with the end of the state disaster emergency on June 25, 2021, school districts are reestablished as the controlling entity for schools.” Opening plans are up to them. For further questions, consult the Centers for Disease Control and local health department.
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