By Bruce Haring pmc-editorial-manager UPDATE: New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo claimed that New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio does not have the authority to declare schools closed for the year. “He didn’t close them and he can’t open them,” Cuomo said after de Blasio claimed that schools would not reopen until September. “It is my legal authority in this situation,” Cuomo said. “It’s not going to be decided in the next few days, because we don’t know.
I can’t tell you what June is going to look like. I can’t tell you what May is going to look like. But I can tell you it will be a metropolitan-wide decision.
And it will be coordinated with the business decision.” EARLIER: New York City schools, which officials dragged their heels on closing
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