{"id":267918,"date":"2026-06-15T22:25:52","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T22:25:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/267918\/"},"modified":"2026-06-15T22:25:52","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T22:25:52","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-cancel-school-for-knicks-parade-students-petition-hopes-to-let-students-celebrate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/267918\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | Cancel School For Knicks Parade Students Petition Hopes To Let Students Celebrate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Should school in New York City be canceled on Thursday for the Knicks parade? It\u2019s a debate that\u2019s been raging on.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">A 12-year-old student from Brooklyn started a <a data-rich-text-hyperlink=\"true\" href=\"http:\/\/change.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Change.org<\/a> petition asking the city to cancel school on June 18 so all students and teachers can celebrate the Knicks\u2019 NBA championship at their Manhattan parade.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">There\u2019s one glaring issue, though: high school students have Regents exams that day.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The state Department of Education says they are not moving exams, but some parents are asking the city to move the parade to a different day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Should school in New York City be canceled on Thursday for the Knicks parade? It\u2019s a debate that\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":267919,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-267918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267918","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=267918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267918\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/267919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}