{"id":170253,"date":"2026-03-21T08:04:34","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T08:04:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/170253\/"},"modified":"2026-03-21T08:04:34","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T08:04:34","slug":"new-york-state-elementary-schools-off-for-1-holiday-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/170253\/","title":{"rendered":"New York State Elementary Schools Off For 1 Holiday This Week"},"content":{"rendered":"

New York State Public Schools are off a day this week for a holiday and parents should prepare for childcare. A lot of students and teachers are off for a day this week and it is catching parents by surprise.<\/p>\n

On Friday, a lot of New York State public elementary and high schools<\/a> will have off for the\u00a0Eid al-Fitr holiday. A lot of public districts have off so it is important that you check your district calendar so that you are not caught off guard:<\/p>\n

I had no idea that we suddenly have this holiday off and now I have to scramble to find a babysitter”, one mom wrote on Facebook this weekend.<\/p>\n

Another parent wrote:<\/p>\n

The school needs to do a better job of communicating with parents when they are going to add new holidays”.<\/p>\n

Of course, it is an important holiday for different cultures, but most parents were hoping that the New York State school districts would have communicated a little better<\/a> that their kids are off so that they can plan better. It is a holiday that is a new introduction to the typical school year.<\/p>\n

Other parents rejoiced that they are getting these holidays<\/a> off.<\/p>\n

This is wonderful news!!”, one mom wrote on social media.<\/p>\n

What is\u00a0Eid al-Fitr? Do kids and students get off for\u00a0Eid al-Fitr?<\/p>\n

It always falls in the middle of March and marks the end of\u00a0“Festival of Breaking the Fast”, which is a 3 day holiday for Islamic cultures.<\/p>\n

What other holidays are being added to a lot of New York State school districts calendar?<\/p>\n

Diwali (November)Asian Lunar New YearEid al-Fitr (April)Eid al-Adh (mid June)See Niagara Falls Illuminated In Green<\/p>\n

Gallery Credit: Brett Alan<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New York State Public Schools are off a day this week for a holiday and parents should prepare…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":170254,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,10,49,51,50,382],"class_list":["post-170253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-state","tag-new-york-state-headlines","tag-new-york-state-news","tag-wny-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170253","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=170253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170253\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/170254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}