The leaders of three teachers’ unions in Massachusetts are supporting an emergency legislation that would delay the school reopening for the state’s youngest students for another three weeks. State Education Commissioner Jeffrey Riley, who heads the Bay State’s K-12 systems, has ordered school districts to bring students from pre-K to 5th grade back to classrooms for full-time instruction by April 5. Middle schools are scheduled to reopen on April 28. The emergency legislation, proposed by Democrat state Reps. Lindsay Sabadosa and James Hawkins, would block Riley from requiring school districts reopen for in-person learning before April 26. The Massachusetts Teachers Association, the American Federation of Teachers Massachusetts, and the Boston Teachers Union welcomed the proposed legislation, saying it would allow more teachers and other school workers to receive COVID-19 vaccines before returning to in-person work. COVID-19 is the disease the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus causes. “This whole process is …