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Mr. de Blasio, speaking at an evening news conference, said the question of whether to keep the schools open was more complex than some people were making it seem. Mass closings, he said, could shut schools down not just for the rest of the current academic year but potentially through the rest of 2020.

“We shut down the school system, we might not see it for the rest of the school year, we might not see the beginning of the new school year,” he said. “And that weighs heavily on me.”