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Governor Cuomo announced today that indoor dining would return at 25% in New York City on September 30th. Cuomo gave two reasons for the delay in the City as compared to the states other municipalities, all of which are currently operating at 50% indoor capacity. “Compliance was lacking in New
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Mayor Bill de Blasio and Chancellor Carranza tour Bronx Collaborative High School to observe ventilation inspections and have a discussion with parents about school reopening. Bronx Collaborative High School. Wednesday, August 26, 2020. Credit: Ed Reed/Mayoral Photography Office.By Christina Veiga, Chalkbeat New York [https://ny.chalkbeat.org/2020/
Announcements
Alejandra Caraballo. (Photo via Caraballo’s campaign)PROSPECT HEIGHTS – Alejandra Caraballo, 29, announced yesterday her run for City Council in District 35 — Fort Greene, Clinton Hill, Crown Heights, Prospect Heights, & Bedford Stuyvesant–in the next year’s elections. The seat will be vacant after Council Member Laurie Cumbo finishes
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BY PRESS NYC: PARENTS FOR RESPONSIVE, EQUITABLE, SAFE SCHOOLS A day after a 7-hour City Council Education Committee hearing where, as at the August 19th PEP, students, parents, and educators spoke out [http://tiny.cc/delayletters] in unity against the reopening of school buildings, it’s becoming ever clearer that
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J’Ouvert in Brooklyn in 2018. (Bklyner File Photo)Gatherings of more than 50 individuals are still not permitted, and Mayor Bill de Blasio reminded everyone this morning that there is no West Indian Day Parade this year. Large scale J’Ouvert festivities are also not permitted, but that event
Business
March 16th saw all sit-down dining halt, and with it went the inspections from the Department of Health (DOH). While indoor dining is yet to resume, DOH started inspecting restaurants again on August 17, however, with some very notable caveats, [https://thenycalliance.org/information/nyc-health-dept-modified-inspections-notice-] NYC Hospitality Alliance informed its
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Schools Chancellor Richard Carranza. City Hall. Monday, August 24, 2020. Credit: Ed Reed/Mayoral Photography Office.Yesterday’s big announcement was that public school reopening is to be delayed [/nyc-school-re-opening-pushed-back-ten-days/] from September 10 to September 16 for remote, and September 21 for blended cohorts, to allow for school buildings to
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UPDATED WITH CURRENT DATA Mayor Bill de Blasio and Chancellor of Education Richard Carranza recently remarked how the city is at 1-2% infection rate citywide, and how that number is going to be used to determine the reopening of the city’s public schools – currently set to open if infection
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NYC school re-opening has been delayed by ten days, as part of the deal with the teachers’ union to prevent a strike, the Mayor announced this morning. Schools were supposed to open for the Fall semester on September 10. Now, remote learning will begin on September 16 and in-person classes
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Late summer fruit in Midwood. (Photo: Zainab Iqbal/Bklyner)Happy Monday! Today is the last day of August. Labor Day is next week. Schools are getting ready to open on September 10. * Concern and frustration over lack of detail on school reopening worry Southern Brooklyn parents and educators, we reported.
Bay Ridge
BAY RIDGE/CONEY ISLAND – Last Thursday night some 60 residents Zoomed into the Southern Brooklyn Community Roundtable on School Reopening, organized by Assemblywoman Mathylde Frontus (AD46, Coney Island, Dyker Heights and parts of Bay Ridge). The event offered those present – mainly parents and educators from School Districts 20 and 21
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Photo by David Ballew [https://unsplash.com/@daveballew?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText] on Unsplash [https://unsplash.com/s/photos/school?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText] By Alex Zimmerman and Christina Veiga, Chalkbeat New York Calling for a