News that proves Twitter is not real life: BdB says 74 percent of NYC students are planning to participate in in-person classes this fall. Only about a quarter of families opted into full-time remote.

That means ~700,000 kids are planning to start the school year on the hybrid model. That's about the size of the Los Angeles school district at full capacity.
About 15 percent of teachers have applied for medical exemptions - slightly under the city's original estimate.

Important caveat here is that families can choose remote learning at any time, so that number could shrink before Sept. But the idea that most families don't want to go back, or dont at least want the option even now, is clearly untrue.

Important: schools will start to release their schedules for hybrid learning next week, so families will learn what days their kids can be in school next week and the week after

De Blasio on ventilation: if a classroom does not have adequate air circulation, it won't open. Seems very likely that a number of classrooms won't open in Sept, but that doesn't mean entire school buildings won't open.

In many ways today's announcement is political - because everything is, whether or not we want to admit it! If you read between the lines, the mayor is saying to the UFT: we are pushing to reopen because enough parents are at least tentatively willing to go back.

What my reporting has shown me: there is no obvious consensus among parents on reopening. Principals in low-income neighborhoods in particular are telling me that in their own personalized surveys, most parents want to return. But there are large #s of parents who are unsure.

Even if the # of parents who opt into hybrid learning drops dramatically this month - say to 60 or 50% - that's still half a million people who want their kids in school part-time. If someone tells you there's consensus, they are making a political argument, not a factual one.