Bill de Blasio has finally done something right

In an important reversal announced this weekend, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said he plans to partially reopen the city’s public elementary schools starting next week.

De Blasio should never have agreed to reclose the city’s schools in the first place, but at least he is taking steps to right this wrong. In-person learning for pre-K and elementary school children will begin once again next week, with special education students set to return to the classroom shortly thereafter. Middle and high schools will remain closed for now, but hopefully not for long because de Blasio has also heeded the advice of his city’s public health officials and discarded the 3% infection threshold that teachers unions had demanded.