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by one education reporter’s count, the eighth and in all likelihood final “first day of school” in this topsy-turvy pandemic academic year.
The number represents the students who had been taking classes from home, but opted to switch to in-person schooling during a sign-up window the city opened up recently. Elementary, middle, and high school students will all be able to go back on the same day good news for the older kids, since the city previously said there was no guarantee of when middle and high schools would accept them.
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New York Mayoral Candidate Andrew Yang speaks to members of the media along Canal Street subway station in New York City. | Spencer Platt/Getty Images
Left leaning PAC to deploy policy poll in making case against Yang
As the primary race for New York City mayor heads into the final 10 weeks, a left-leaning group buoyed by a new poll showing popularity for its chief policy goals is gearing up to make a public case against frontrunner Andrew Yang.
The political action committee “Our City” recently commissioned a survey that found 56 percent of likely voters are unsure who to back in the eight-way Democratic primary a race Yang has dominated since his entry in January. But the same 509 voters said they are looking for a candidate committed to shifting resources away from the NYPD, expanding affordable housing and increasing taxes on high earners to underwrite the city’s recovery from Covid-19.