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Updated Feb 28, 2021;
Posted Feb 28, 2021
Education councils are elected every two years, and applications are open until Sunday to run for a seat. (Staten Island Advance/ Jan Somma-Hammel) Staten Island Advance
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STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. The last day to apply to run for New York City community and citywide education councils for the 2021-2023 term, including for Staten Island’s Community Education Council (CEC) 31, is Sunday.
Education councils are elected every two years, and applications are open until Sunday to run for election to fill all 325 seats for the two-year term that begins on July 1. Councils give parents a voice in shaping the policies and priorities for New York City schools.
The U.S. new cases 7-day rolling average are 2.0 % HIGHER than the 7-day rolling average one week ago. U.S. hospitalizations due to COVID-19 are now 13.4 %
LOWER than the rolling average one week ago. U.S. deaths due to coronavirus are now 13.9 %
LOWER than the rolling average one week ago. Today s posts include:
U.S. Coronavirus New Cases are 77,291
U.S. Coronavirus hospitalizations are at 52,669
U.S. Coronavirus deaths are at 2,417
U.S. Coronavirus immunizations have been administered to 20.4 % of the population
The 7-day rolling average rate of growth of the pandemic shows new cases worsened, hospitalizations worsened, and deaths worsened [note: this is a sign of trend reversal - could the new variants be impacting COVID case growth?>
By Jillian Jorgensen and Anna Lucente Sterling New York City UPDATED 3:00 PM ET Feb. 26, 2021 PUBLISHED 10:00 AM ET Feb. 26, 2021 PUBLISHED 10:00 AM EST Feb. 26, 2021
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NEW YORK Schools Chancellor Richard Carranza, who runs a public school system that was thrown into chaos nearly a year ago with the start of the pandemic, is stepping down.
In his place, Mayor Bill de Blasio has appointed Meisha Porter, currently the executive superintendent for the Bronx. She is a 20-year Education Department employee who would be the first Black woman to lead the nation’s largest school district.
(Incoming Schools Chancellor Meisha Porter. Photo provided by NYC Mayor s Office)
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Chancellor of N.Y.C. Schools to Resign
Richard A. Carranza, chancellor of New York City public schools, said on Friday he would resign in March. The move follows repeated clashes between the chancellor and Mayor Bill de Blasio on school desegregation policy.
“To all my colleagues at the Department of Education, it is incredibly hard to say goodbye to you. And in my culture, we don’t say goodbye. We say as hasta luego until we see you again. You’re the most dedicated, hardworking colleagues I have ever had the privilege of working with. And it’s been my privilege to be your colleague. I know the pandemic has not been easy for you or for any New Yorker. And make no mistake, I am a New Yorker. Well, not by birth, by choice, a New Yorker who has lost a New Yorker who has lost 11 family and close childhood friends to this pandemic. And a New Yorker who, quite frankly, needs to take time to grieve. I feel that I can take that time now because of the place that we are,