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When the siege on Capitol Hill unfolded on Wednesday, Chrissy Prince an 11th grade U.S. history teacher at Brooklyn Collaborative Studies in Carroll Gardens knew she needed to deviate from her regularly scheduled lesson plan on the Revolutionary War. This is history, Prince recalled thinking as she saw what occurred in the nation s capital. Whatever we were doing was not going to be as important and as relevant to discuss as what our kids are living through right now.
Her colleague, John Schmitt, got little sleep that night, waking up at 5 a.m. to develop a lesson plan tailored for students in the 6th to 12th grade public school that explored the chaos that happened on Wednesday when a mob stormed the Capitol during the certification of the presidential election for Joe Biden. The events of the day, much of it captured on social media, resulted in the deaths of five people, i
Mayor de Blasio and Schools Chancellor Richard Carranza announced sweeping changes to the middle and high school admissions process last Friday, a decision they said goes beyond the racial impacts of the current health crisis to try to address longstanding inequities in the way schools are funded.
De Blasio announced that starting now, middle schools will implement a one-year pause on admissions screens. The Department of Education will also roll out several changes to the high schools admissions process over the next two years.
âI like to say very bluntly, our mission is to redistribute wealth. A lot of people bristle at that phrase â that is in fact the phrase we need to use. We have been doing this work for seven years to more equitably redistribute resources throughout our school system,â de Blasio said at a press event Monday.
City Forces 12,000 Students Back To Remote Learning For Failing To Submit COVID Testing Consent Forms
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Some 12,000 public school students from first through fifth grade were forced to shift back to full remote learning after not submitting signed consent forms for the COVID-19 randomized testing program required for physically attending school.
Some 190,000 elementary and special education students returned to the classroom on December 7th, two and a half weeks after Mayor Bill de Blasio ordered them to close once the city s seven-day positive testing average for COVID-19 hit 3%. Students from 3K through kindergarten were exempt from submitting their forms after the city Health Department determined they are less likely to transmit the virus. This left just 131,000 students to submit their forms.
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Mayor Bill de Blasio, first lady Chirlane McCray and Schools Chancellor Richard Carranza on Monday announced a mental health plan to help better support students during the pandemic.
The first phase will focus on the 27 communities most affected by Covid-19, with plans to ultimately make new mental health supports available to students citywide, the mayor s office said. The trauma of the pandemic has been acutely felt by our youngest New Yorkers, de Blasio said in a statement. In New York City, we believe that mental health care is a human right, and our students will not navigate this pain and grief alone.