local districts react to latest school guidelines

On Monday, Governor Andrew Cuomo announced that school would be allowed to reopen based on the data.

To one local superintendent this afternoon...about the new rules for bringing students back the table has been set for reopening schools in new york state.

Governor andrew cuomo outlining guidelines for districts statewide in his briefing.

Rome superintendent peter blake says the state's guidelines are feasible to work with.

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None "peter blake, superintendent rcsd" "i dont think the mohawk valley has reached a nine percent infection rate or 5 percent.

The highest i've seen recently was 2 percent so i ink relate to that i tnk wee well withinhe guidines the able to reopen under tse rameters."

The ate nowsaying fad in schoo when sial distancing cannot be maintained.

But not during meals or classroom instruction some parents throughout the district have their own opinions about bringing kids back.

"i'm actually worried about it because its going to be hard for kids to keep their mask on all day and have them social distancing when they go home you dont know what kind of enviorment they're going to be in if they;'re around covid.

Its scary this whole thing is really scary."

Blake say keeping students and staff safe comes with a number of challenges such as getting the kids to school and keeping them and staff healthy while they're there.

Issues blake says will come at a cost.

"with a district of our size that runs a budget of between 150- 200 million dollars, the additional expense will be between 5 to 8 million dollars so essentially you're looking at a 5% increase across the board and i think that goes for every district."

"brent kearney, bkearneywktv "now the governor plans on making the decision on whether or not to open schools between august 1st and august 7th.

That only gives districts a few short weeks to prepare."

"in this situtation we are going to have only about 14 days.

We've been having committee meetings for about 2 months now.

So we have ideas and thoughts, but to put those ideas and thoughts together its going to be expedited and its going to be very quick."

Blake says he expects more specific guidelines on wednesday.

In rome brent kearney news channel 2 senator chuck scumer was in central new york today and has reaction to the governor's announcement today.

We'll have that for you a bit later in the newscast.

For schools to reopen, the numbres of cases are important.