As we've been reporting, local elected officials are urging Mayor de Blasio to designate a Lunar New Year school holiday next year. Recently, he decided against the move, while suggesting it's something that could happen in the future. Politicos...
Mayor De Blasio last week declined to declare a school holiday for the Lunar New Year. Yesterday, 18 elected officials penned a letter to the mayor urging him to reconsider.
The letter was signed by the whole New York Congressional...
Mayor de Blasio yesterday announced that New York would become the first major American city to close its public schools for Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha, the Muslim holy days. But in a disappointment to activists in Chinatown, he did...
