{"id":391616,"date":"2026-11-03T03:02:03","date_gmt":"2026-11-03T03:02:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/391616\/"},"modified":"2026-11-03T03:02:03","modified_gmt":"2026-11-03T03:02:03","slug":"why-are-nyc-public-schools-closed-on-election-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/391616\/","title":{"rendered":"Why are NYC public schools closed on Election Day?"},"content":{"rendered":"

New York City public school students won\u2019t be on campus on Tuesday in observance of Election Day.<\/p>\n

Public schools across the five boroughs will be closed to students for in-person learning on Tuesday, Nov. 3, as many campuses will be open as voting sites. Students will instead be learning remotely. <\/p>\n

Campuses will reopen to students on Wednesday for the remainder of the school week. <\/p>\n

New York City public school students will have plenty of days off before the end of the year. Schools are closed on Nov. 11 for Veterans Day and are off from Nov. 26-27 for Thanksgiving recess.<\/p>\n

Winter recess begins on Dec. 24.<\/p>\n

The public school academic calendar<\/a> includes some two dozen days off between the first day and the last day of classes.<\/p>\n

The calendar gives time off every year for religious holidays like Good Friday, Yom Kippur and Eid al-Fitr, and week-long breaks for winter recess, mid-winter recess and spring recess, which include Christmas and Passover. Diwali has also been added recently as a public school holiday.<\/p>\n

The school calendar also allows time off each year for Thanksgiving, Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Memorial Day and Juneteenth. Dates for parent-teacher conference days for elementary, middle schools and high schools are also posted in the calendar.<\/p>\n

You can go here to view more important dates for the 2026-2027 public school academic year.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New York City public school students won\u2019t be on campus on Tuesday in observance of Election Day. Public…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":391617,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[9,24,63,134,136,135],"class_list":["post-391616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-staten-island","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-staten-island","tag-staten-island-headlines","tag-staten-island-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391616","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=391616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391616\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/391617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}