Schools will remain closed for the rest of the academic year in New York — a move Governor Andrew Cuomo said on Friday is necessary as the coronavirus pandemic continues to upend in life.

But what’s next for schools in New York? Most likely, a complicated path to reopening.

For the last two months, kids have been at home. New York State PTA President Kyle Belokopitsky said it’s a challenge for parents who have to juggle both distance learning and their own jobs during the pandemic.

“It’s very hard to reopen the rest of the state when parents don’t have child care,” she said. “When parents don’t have a school to send their children to. Parents and families across the state can look very different.”

School districts will be required to develop plans for reopening that take into consideration cleaning and social distancing. That could be a challenge.

“As the mom of a fifth grader, I can tell you my son and his friends are not going to social distance in a school building,” Belokopitsky said. “It’s just not the way kids are. And I think the governor in answering questions today said we can’t expect kids to social distance in a school building.”

Schools will likely be following any guidance issued by state education officials. New York State School Boards Association Executive Director Bob Schneider expects they have time now to develop those plans. But school won’t be the same like it was back in March.

“It will look different,” Schneider said. “It will be additional things happening on top of the normal things — bringing students back into the building. But it’s going to be a different world with transportation and social distancing and all those things.”

And even before schools reopen, there’s the issue of funding. New York has lost billions of dollars and education could be cut. State teachers union president Andy Pallotta says there needs to be direct federal aid.

“The federal government has to come through in a gigantic way for New York state,” said NYSUT President Andy Pallotta. “We shouldn’t have layoffs, we shouldn’t have any problems funding the schools and that should come from the federal government.

Already, state tests for June and August have been canceled. A decision on summer school, Cuomo says, will be made at the end of this month.