NYC Teachers Still Express Safety Concerns 10 Days Before School Starts

Earlier this month, the city’s largest teachers’ union threatened to strike — and that could still on the table if its agreements with de Blasio on how to safely welcome educators and kids back to in-person learning disintegrate further.The union’s at-time fractious relationship with City Hall has been made that much more tense by looming layoffs — 22,000 city workers, many of them teachers — made necessary by the COVID budget crisis and lack of direct federal aid. Katherine Creag reports.