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News flash: New York City toddlers must suffer for a New York Times columnist’s piece of mind. Ginia Bellafante, the paper’s “Big City” columnist, was in full coronavirus panic mode on Sunday. Did she want to close down restaurants and nightlife again? No, instead she wanted to do something even more useless and cruel -- keep toddlers masked in school.

Mayor Eric Adams says he’s following the science in his decision to rescind mask mandates for very young children.

'Urgency of Equity' aims to sort fact from fiction; advocates for safe learning environment

A group of NYC parents called for continued mask mandates as the city begins lifting them almost two years since the pandemic began.

A group of roughly a dozen protesters demonstrated in favor of masks outside the New York Department of Education on Wednesday.

Parents are also reporting their children are being removed from the city’s opt-in testing program after only a first dose of vaccine.

When New York City opened schools in person, with no online option, some families kept kids home. Some parents say they have been accused of neglect.

Over the last couple of weeks, community activists with the Party for Socialism and Liberation, the Justice Center en El Barrio, East Harlem Preservat