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Beginning Monday, public school staff and kids in kindergarten through 12th grade can choose whether to wear masks or not in buildings and on school buses.

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13 Months Into Pandemic Schooling, NYC Teachers Yearn For Stability arrow A teacher greets students at PS 179 in Brooklyn on the first day of school. Mark Lennihan/AP/Shutterstock When Curtis High School teacher Ife Damon first experienced an unexpected student showing up in her remote class as a prank, she realized this was new territory not covered in teacher training. “The very first time it happened, it completely caught us off guard,” said Damon, who teaches English Language Arts and special education at the Staten Island school. “That's just one example w...

arrow The clash outside the Capitol Kent Nishimura/Los Angeles Times/Shutterstock 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, Jo...