Schools Are Juggling All Kinds of Learning Models This Year. But That Doesn’t Always Mean They Are Hiring More Teachers.

Route Fifty: Perhaps no place demonstrates the difficulties of staffing up for both traditional classroom teaching and remote learning as the nation’s largest school system.

Last week, as New York City again pushed off the first day of in-person for most public school students, the Independent Budget Office (IBO) concluded it would cost an extra $32 million a week to safely reopen under Mayor Bill de Blasio’s hybrid model. The IBO report attributed most of the cost increase to the $19 million a week needed for hiring an additional 11,900 teachers and substitutes.

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