Philadelphia school leaders confident schools will reopen this year

With school scheduled to open in two weeks, the local teachers union’s president Jerry Jordan called the delay “simply absurd.”

“Although the pandemic is far from over, beginning to welcome our students back … is a little bit of a light at the end of the tunnel,” said Superintendent William Hite.

City councilmembers pressed School District of Philadelphia Superintendent William Hite on issues of public trust during a hearing Wednesday.