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Photo Illustration by Erin O'Flynn/The Daily Beast/Getty ImagesLast year, German health minister Karl Lauterbach did something politicians almost never do unless they’ve been caught with their pants down: He apologized. Closing schools for long periods during the COVID-19 pandemic, Lauterbach said, had been an “unnecessary mistake.”Where is our Lauterbach?Though President Joe Biden wasn’t in office at the start of the pandemic, he and other prominent Democrats ha...

Intekhab Shakil, most recently the chief information officer at the city Law Department, will be tasked with supervising technology used by schools, students and families.

Parents fumed as some of their kids only got a few hours of learning on Tuesday after the Department of Education called a remote school day.

Both sides are set to sit down with state lawmakers Monday.

A report from McMaster University says school closures in Ontario did little to contain COVID-19's spread in the broader community. Vaccination and masking were stronger factors.

New York City's Public Schools chancellor David Banks described his disappointment at the "remote-learning test" bureaucrats imposed on children in place of giving them a snow day off Tuesday.

Winter storm hits Northeast, causing difficult driving, closed schools and canceled flights

Dozens of schools across the NYC area are closed Tuesday as a snow storm slams the Tri-State. Track them live here.

Students and educators across the Big Apple were hit with "service unavailable" messages as they attempted to access the Department of Education's learning systems for the first day of remote learning since the COVID-19 pandemic.

New York City Public Schools failed the city’s “test” of snow day remote learning on Tuesday after experiencing “technical difficulties” when a nor’easter dumped multiple inches of snow on the region, the city’s public school chancellor said Tuesday. Chancellor David Banks said Tuesday was a “challenging morning,” after NYC Public Schools learned parent and students…