Remote Learning to End in NYC Schools This Fall
This school year, 60 percent of the city’s students are learning remotely rather than attending in person classes.
Education
De Blasio: Parents Should Prepare for COVID School Closures Early as Monday
Mayor Bill de Blasio on Friday said parents should be prepared for schools to close as early as Monday, amid another rise in coronavirus infections.
Crotona Park School Closed After Positive COVID Tests
The campus of PS 811X will remain closed for 24 hours in accordance with the city’s safety measures, authorities said.
School Buses Will be Ready for Bronx Students: de Blasio
Bus companies will cover 2,470 general education routes and 5,962 special education routes, ensuring “bus service will be available to all children who need it,” the mayor said.
Outdoor Learning Coming to Bronx Schools this Fall
Priority is being given to schools in communities where COVID-19 caused the most infections and deaths, including hard-hit parts of the Bronx.
Bronx Assembly Candidate Calls Life-Saving HPV Vaccine “Poison,” Questions “Motive” for Proposed Mandate
“It makes me question the motive and who profits from making every child in NY take this poison,” the first-time political candidate, and public school parent, said in the Nov. 2019 post.
Two Bronx Teachers Among NYC Educators Felled by COVID
Chris Mondal, a 30-year-old paraprofessional who taught at PS 46 for eight years, and David Behrbom, 47, who taught physical education at PS 55 for over 15 years, both succumbed to the disease this month.
Drive Aims to Deliver Books to Teens at Horizon Juvenile Center
The Bronx-based bookstore Boogie Down Books is partnering with Friends of Island Academy to promote the “Books to Jails” initiative: an effort get books into the hands of young people locked up at Horizon Juvenile Center in Mott Haven.