{"id":111897,"date":"2026-01-25T15:13:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T15:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/111897\/"},"modified":"2026-01-25T15:13:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T15:13:07","slug":"nyc-schools-closed-monday-but-classes-moved-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/111897\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC Schools closed Monday, but classes moved online"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New York City schools will be closed Monday due to <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/01\/24\/us-news\/snow-loving-new-yorkers-get-creative-with-their-sleds-ahead-of-major-winter-storm-fern\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Winter Storm Fern<\/a>, but students are still expected to show up for class online, Mayor Mamdani announced.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Hizzoner\u2019s decision to <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/01\/23\/us-news\/zohran-mamdani-says-nyc-kids-can-forget-about-traditional-snow-day-on-monday\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">move the classes remotely<\/a> will have the city\u2019s nearly 500,000 public school students across the city\u2019s nearly 1,100 schools participating in class from their homes.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Mamdani is denying NYC kids a classic winter snow day, instead forcing them into remote learning. Erik Pendzich\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n<p>A worker clears snow from the Brooklyn Heights Promenade on Sunday. AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs snowfall begins to blanket our city and conditions become hazardous, closing school buildings is a necessary step to keep New Yorkers safe,\u201d Mayor Mamdani said. Bruce Cotler\/ZUMA \/ SplashNews.com<\/p>\n<p>New York Post front page on Saturday. New York Post<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs snowfall begins to blanket our city and conditions become hazardous, closing school buildings is a necessary step to keep New Yorkers safe,\u201d Mayor Mamdani said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New York City schools will be closed Monday due to Winter Storm Fern, but students are still expected&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":111898,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[57,9,24,55,54,56,48674,5271,8555,274,58,82],"class_list":["post-111897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-metro","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-ny","tag-remote-learning","tag-schools","tag-snow","tag-storms","tag-us-news","tag-zohran-mamdani"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111897\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}