This is the Coronavirus Schools Briefing, a guide to the seismic changes in U.S. education that are taking place during the pandemic. Sign up here to get this newsletter in your inbox.
Shortly after this newsletter was published on Monday, Mayor Bill de Blasio of New York dropped two bombshells.
First, he revealed that only 26 percent of students in the school district, the nation’s largest, have attended any class in person this year so far — way below expectations. At the beginning of the year, about half of the 1.1 million children in the system chose a hybrid approach that combines…
