{"id":142949,"date":"2026-02-23T18:15:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T18:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/142949\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T18:15:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T18:15:10","slug":"nyc-public-schools-to-open-for-in-person-classes-tuesday-after-crippling-snowfall-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/142949\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC public schools to open for in person classes Tuesday after crippling snowfall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">As a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/2026\/02\/23\/nyc-blizzared-state-of-emergency\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:bomb cyclone continued to wallop New York City;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">bomb cyclone continued to wallop New York City<\/a> with up to 20 inches of heavy snow, Mayor Mamdani was set to announce the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/2026\/02\/22\/nyc-mayor-mamdani-declares-full-school-snow-day-for-monday-with-no-remote-learning\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:public schools will reopen for in-person classes;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">public schools will reopen for in-person classes<\/a> Tuesday, a City Hall official told the Daily News.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Mamdani was expected to inform families, teachers and school staffers of his decision at a 1:15 p.m. press conference on Monday, the person said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The return to school buildings comes after city school kids Monday had their first traditional snow day since 2019 and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edweek.org\/leadership\/no-more-snow-days-thanks-to-remote-learning-not-everyone-agrees\/2020\/11\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:advent of remote learning;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">advent of remote learning<\/a> during the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Mamdani said he made the call to fully cancel classes in response to a unique set of circumstances Monday \u2014 the first day of school after last week\u2019s previously scheduled midwinter recess.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cWe believe that there were extenuating circumstances, both with the city\u2019s first blizzard in 10 years, combined with the fact that students and teachers were coming back from a week of being off,\u201d Mamdani said on 1010 Wins. \u201cThat meant that they didn\u2019t all have the technology in advance of what would\u2019ve otherwise been a remote learning day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cWe didn\u2019t believe it would actually be productive or conducive or something that would be helpful for our students. So we applied for a waiver from the state. We were told that we would receive it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The city has been reluctant to cancel classes during snowstorms because of a state law requiring 180 days of school. With the addition of new holidays, public schools have less flexibility in the academic calendar to close school on days that count toward the required total.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The state\u2019s waiver means students won\u2019t have to make up the day of school later this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As a bomb cyclone continued to wallop New York City with up to 20 inches of heavy snow,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":142950,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[302,27321,1445,9,56,63,65,64,209,2928],"class_list":["post-142949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-city-hall","tag-classes","tag-mamdani","tag-new-york","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-public-schools","tag-school-buildings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142949","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=142949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142949\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}