Nearly each region of New York is on a different time table for reopening its economy as parts of upstate New York move toward a faster schedule than the New York City metropolitan region, which was harder hit by the coronavirus pandemic. 

So, what does this mean for schools reopening in September? Will some schools in, say, the North Country region open faster given what for now has been a far lower rate of infection?

Like everything else when it comes to longer-term planning, it's virtually impossible to say at this point.

"You can guess, you can speculate, I think, but nobody knows," Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Wednesday said during his briefing in Queens. "Nobody knows. So, what we’re doing now is we’re coming up with plans, we’re coming up with alternatives. They’re being submitted. We’re going to study them, but we have to get a better gauge of where we are with the COVID virus before we make any decisions."

Most New York schools have been closed since March when the coronavirus pandemic began to spread through the state. Schools closed for the remainder of the year and moved to distancing learning, a method that has been at best uneven for students in rural or low-income areas. 

School districts have been tasked with developing a plan for social distancing and cleaning school buildings if they are able to reopen in September.