{"id":113319,"date":"2026-01-26T22:36:22","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T22:36:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/113319\/"},"modified":"2026-01-26T22:36:22","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T22:36:22","slug":"nyc-public-schools-to-reopen-tuesday-following-weekends-major-storm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/113319\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC public schools to reopen Tuesday following weekend\u2019s major storm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"UU6QE246HJGWPPUOJBU5ZKXG7I\">STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. \u2014 After a day of remote learning in lieu of a traditional snow day, New York City public school students will be heading back to the classroom Tuesday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"XXM5HJNAUZBHBCBR3IQC5EGGWE\">Mayor Zohran Mamdani confirmed that the city\u2019s public schools will reopen <a href=\"https:\/\/www.silive.com\/news\/2026\/01\/snowstorm-brutal-cold-disrupt-staten-island-rest-of-nyc-latest-updates.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.silive.com\/news\/2026\/01\/snowstorm-brutal-cold-disrupt-staten-island-rest-of-nyc-latest-updates.html\">following a massive snowstorm that dumped roughly a foot of snow over the five boroughs on Sunday<\/a>, pushing students to log in from their home to attend school virtually on Monday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"X7GHTKS3AVFFDCDZCFACVFNDUM\">Roughly 80% of students logged into Monday\u2019s remote learning school day, according to the city. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"F4WS6U56G5C7BO6XG424YPGRWE\">High school students and those who attend a sixth-to-12th-grade school already had the day off Monday \u201cdue to a previously scheduled professional learning day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"T32MDNCFQZDSJBBOPTDUEJDQGM\">\u201cAs dedicated city workers mobilized across all five boroughs to clear our streets and keep New Yorkers safe, teachers and students this morning came together online \u2013 reading, learning and staying connected,\u201d Mamdani said in a written statement. \u201cThanks to the round-the-clock work of our schools facilities teams, we are ready to welcome students and staff back to classrooms tomorrow. I am deeply grateful to our school leaders, educators and families for making today\u2019s remote learning day a success and for preparing our students to return.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"PQWZXM3MBNEWLO2ZNTHHMCXTRU\">Snow and ice were removed from schools across the city to make sure students could safely return to campus Tuesday, according to the statement. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"ONPJ4VSPOFBPXPDYJQSQG6H7F4\">\u201cThe successful transition to remote learning was made possible through close interagency collaboration, which ensured students had the necessary devices and connectivity, log-in systems were stress-tested and classrooms were ready to open Tuesday,\u201d the statement detailed. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. \u2014 After a day of remote learning in lieu of a traditional snow day, New&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":101179,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[9,24,63,134,136,135],"class_list":{"0":"post-113319","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-staten-island","8":"tag-new-york","9":"tag-new-york-city","10":"tag-nyc","11":"tag-staten-island","12":"tag-staten-island-headlines","13":"tag-staten-island-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113319","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=113319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113319\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}