NEW YORK (Reuters) - Les écoles publiques de New York ont reporté de onze jours la rentrée des classes, au 21 septembre, en vertu d'un accord conclu avec les syndicats d’enseignants qui réclamaient des mesures de sécurité supplémentaires contre le coronavirus, a annoncé mardi Bill de Blasio, le maire de la ville." data-reactid="23">NEW YORK (Reuters) – Public schools in New York have postponed the start of the school year by 11 days to September 21 under a deal reached with teachers’ unions demanding additional safety measures against the coronavirus, city mayor Bill de Blasio announced on Tuesday.
The unions, led by the United Federation of Teachers (UFT), considered a rush to start school on September 10 and criticized the lack of adequate measures to protect teachers, students and school staff.
New York lors d'un point presse." data-reactid="25">“We have made sure that sanitary measures are put in place, to ensure that our teaching staff have time to prepare properly,” the mayor of New York said during a press briefing.
New York a les politiques les plus rigoureuses et les mesures de sécurité les plus strictes de tous les systèmes scolaires des Etats-Unis", a déclaré Michael Mulgrew, le président de l’UFT, qui représente 133.000 enseignants et autres travailleurs du secteur de l'éducation." data-reactid="26">“Our medical experts have approved this plan, and we can now say that the New York public school system has the toughest policies and the toughest safety measures of any school system in the United States,” Michael said. Mulgrew, the president of UFT, which represents 133,000 teachers and other workers in the education sector.
(Peter Szekely, French version Laura Marchioro, edited by Jean-Stéphane Brosse)
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