UFT head Michael Mulgrew pointed out that many city private and charter schools have already shut their doors plus multiple other states.

The private institute offers arts classes to 4,000 students mostly in Harlem, through classes at its building and at partner schools.

Mulgrew accused city officials of not complying with state protocol on school closures - which mandates 24-hour shutdowns if a student or staff member tests positive - and creating unsafe labor conditions.

The sites, which Mayor de Blasio first announced Sunday, will be staffed by a combination of city teachers and community-based organizations, according to a plan the city Education Department submitted to state officials Monday night.

The annual math and English exams administered annually to New York 3rd-8th graders, as well as exams for English Language Learners, will no longer be given this school year, said Board of Regents Chancellor Betty Rosa and interim state Education Commissioner Shannon Tahoe.

Students cracked open laptops or homework packets Monday morning, while parents wrangled restless kids and teachers reconnected with pupils longing for some structure after a week of aimlessness spent mostly indoors.

When Hurricane Sandy hit in 2012, Donald Nesbitt, then a cook at a Brooklyn public school, packed a bag and slept at school so he could continue making food for the many students who relied on him for their regular meals.

A Brooklyn principal has died of complications from the coronavirus, the principals union announced Monday.

Rona Phillips, the principal of KAPPA V High School in Brownsville, is in intensive care with pneumonia, officials said. “Our thoughts are with Principal Phillips and her family for a speedy recovery, and we’ll support the school community in every way we can,” said Education Department spokeswoman Miranda Barbot.

The Grossman School on Medicine is making the unprecedented move “in response to Governor Cuomo’s directive to get more physicians into the health system more quickly," it said in a statement.

A Brooklyn middle school took a novel approach to remote learning: A computer drop-off service to students.

The staffer hasn’t been working out of the agency’s Tweed Courthouse headquarters for nine days and is currently quarantined out of state. The employee alerted close colleagues as a precaution, according to sources.

The small businesses, many of which already run on razor-thin margins, are struggling to make end meet amid the crisis.

Workers were organizing with Teamsters Local 814 in the hopes of starting a union to address simmering concerns over pay and inconsistent hours.

Many of the city's foster youth were thrust into uncertainty last week when CUNY ordered them out of their dorms due to coronavirus. Unlike their peers, these students have no childhood bedrooms to return to, and often no families who can help them through the shutdown of the economy or the closing of their colleges.

The high-stakes exams are graduation requirements for New York high school students.

Twenty-two of the city’s 25,000 paraprofessionals have died from the coronavirus, a rate four times higher than the rest of the 150,000-employee Department of Education, according to the agency’s data.

Maira Ramirez feels a pang of guilt when her phone buzzes with class assignments while she’s working double shifts at a kosher market to support her financially-strapped family during the pandemic. “I would be at work and see the notifications pop up on Google Classrooms," said Ramirez, a 20-year-old student at West Brooklyn Community High School — a transfer school for students who have struggled in traditional high schools. “I’d be like ‘Damn, I can’t even do them.'”

Union officials say school bus workers will be hit hard by the cuts.

Dozens of students and patients are thriving through distance learning and telehealth consultation via the Blythedale Children’s Hospital.

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Audio recordings of two 911 calls placed moments before Ahmaud Arbery was killed confirm that at least two people were concerned that a black man was running in their Georgia neighborhood.

A member of the U.S. Navy who serves as one of President Trump’s personal valets has tested positive for coronavirus.

The governor did not go as far as to cancel rent outright, which progressives have increasingly called on him to do as the virus continues to curtail people’s ability to work and make ends meet.

As devastating as the NYC numbers are, they represent a steady decrease from early April, when there were 533 new confirmed deaths on April 7 and 6,155 new cases on April 6.

The NYPD will limit entry at Hudson River Park Piers 45 and 46 in Manhattan and Domino Park in Williamsburg to ensure social distancing during coronavirus.

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Dominican Yankees and Mets stars are working with Pedro Martinez to respond to the coronavirus pandemic in their homeland.

A computer simulation suggests that a massive collision may have caused Jupiter’s core to shatter into a gassy, borderless cloud.

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Talk about a sweet gesture. A line of DC Comics superhero chocolate bars is coming, but before you can get your hands on them, Hershey’s is first giving them out to workers on the frontlines of the coronavirus pandemic.

He was first admitted to a hospital back in April after being diagnosed with COVID-19.

Between 83,000 and 190,000 people could die of COVID-19 in Africa, with 29 million to 44 million infected, in the coronavirus pandemic’s first year if containment measures do not work, the African regional office of the World Health Organization (WHO) said Thursday.

Google parent Alphabet has scrapped its plans to develop a futuristic “Smart City” on the Toronto waterfront over privacy concerns and economic uncertainty brought on by the coronavirus pandemic

The heartwarming reunion, which clearly made little Mila Sneddon's day, took the young girl completely by surprise.

The cocktail includes three antiviral drugs and a different drug that boosts natural immune system chemicals.

LAUSD's decision to temporarily shut down schools causes an enormous disruption. And it's not clear how helpful the move will be in slowing coronavirus spread.

Public health experts are urging people to stay home to avoid spreading coronavirus. But that means some people could end up losing their homes.

After weeks of dithering, Trump finally seems to have gotten the message that Americans are desperate for more than empty assurances on coronavirus.

Congress can and should do more to combat a coronavirus downturn — including a $1,000 UBI check to every citizen.

Soap is restricted and hand sanitizer is contraband at correctional facilities. We need to stop admitting people accused of low-level crimes.

We're all in this together. It's far better for society if folks choose to help their fellow humans rather than rip the last roll of toilet paper from their hands.

Ideally, business owners and individuals will make the right decisions in the face of coronavirus. But then, there will always be companies like Tesla.

Los Angeles wants to move thousands of homeless people inside. But is crowding indoors actually less dangerous than letting them stay on the streets?

California's order might seem like a big deal. But what we don't know about this virus, which is a lot, means the risk of inaction is too high.

With 40 million kids home from school, what's being done to make sure students are learning?

One Trump's smartest moves was to make Dr. Anthony Fauci a part of his coronavirus task force. Let's keep him there.

A pandemic threatens participation in the ultimate act of citizenship.