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 …
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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 …
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The city’s general government called for a delay in reopening New York’s public schools to allow more time to address concerns about coronavirus, the group said in a letter released Wednesday. “I am writing on behalf of the 6,400 New York City School Leaders and ask you to include their …
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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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The Department of Education released new protocols Thursday to handle any possible confirmed cases of coronavirus in schools this coming year. The DOE plan states that if one or more students in the same class test positive, their classrooms will close and anyone who has had close contact with those …
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