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Cuomo: Opening Schools in New York ‘Risky’ but ‘Fingers Crossed’

By Theodore Bunker (NEWSMAX)

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Friday that reopening the state’s schools “is a risky proposition” because of the pandemic and that he “would have a lot of questions” about whether he would send his own children to school in New York City.

“This is a risky proposition no matter how you do it, let’s be honest,” the governor told NBC’s “Today” show on Friday. “We’ve seen schools open — we’ve seen colleges open — and get into trouble in one week. So there’s a lot of questions to answer.”

Cuomo was then asked if he was confident that schools are prepared to reopen, to which he said, “Fingers crossed on all of this.”

He added that schools will reopen only if parents and teachers agree, and that reopening should be decided “school district by school district.”

Cuomo said, “We have 700 school districts and I’m sure we’re going to have 700 different answers in New York.”

He added that New York has gone from having “the highest infection rate in the United States to the lowest,” and that “if there’s any state that can reopen schools, it’s us.”

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