On Aug. 27, 2020, the DOE and the UFT announced a new agreement on the terms of blended and remote learning for the 2020–21 school year.

UFT President Michael Mulgrew issued the following statement: 

Under the pressure of the pandemic, we have created a strategy to combine remote and in-person learning, a flexible system where a team of educators will work with a given group of students. But even with this approach, many schools will still face a staffing shortage, which the system will have to address.