Throughout The Pandemic, These City Workers Have Kept NYC Going
arrow Students and staff at a Regional Enrichment Center in April. Department of Education / Twitter
Back in March, when the escalating COVID-19 crisis shut down the New York City school system, Ovsanna Khachikian at the Department of Education was part of a team assigned a massive project: find a way to provide safe childcare for the kids of tens of thousands of first responders, essential workers and medical staffers and find a way to do it fast.
“The mayor was really resisting closing schools, because he recognized.the cascading effect would essentially mean that if we closed schools, childcare would be a serious issue for our health care workers and our mass transit system and a number of our essential workers,” said Khachikian.