Escalating their fight against the reimbursement of lessons in the classroom next month, a crowd of city staff massaged outside the schools of Richard Carranza’s apartment building in Brooklyn Thursday night to demand a delay of resumption. Carrying signs and singing, the throng claimed that the city failed to ensure …
Read More »The Blasio urges NYC teachers to show up on the first day of school
Mayor Bill de Blasio on Thursday increased the pressure for teachers to appear on the first day of school – and said it was “their job” – when he shot down pleas from teachers’ principals and unions to delay it again. The mayor was grilled over the pushback from the …
Read More »Most NYC parents do not want their children to go back to school: data
More than 200,000 New York City parents have chosen to keep their children at home when school begins in September, hiding a combination of personal and distance learning, according to preliminary data. Of the 322,572 families who submitted an online preference form to the Department of Education on Thursday, 212,940 …
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