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snowpocalypse
February 9, 2010
Break out the hot cocoa. City says tomorrow is a snow day
School buses parked in Red Hook, Brooklyn, wait out a winter storm. From Flickr via Michelle
No news travels faster than word of a snow day. It’s on the radio, on teacher blogs, and in a notice sent by the Department of Education this morning: There is no school tomorrow.
The Department of Education sent out a notice at 11:10 am to say that regular school as well as all after school activities and sports are canceled. The Panel for Educational Policy meeting, which was scheduled for tomorrow night, has also been canceled and the proposals moved to the March meeting.
The same precaution is not being extended to DOE employees, who will be at their desks tomorrow, I’m told.
Last March, Chancellor Klein waited until 20 minutes before 6 am to declare a snow day, angering teachers who’d already begun their commutes and parents who had to find childcare.
The chancellor’s notice this year reads: (more…)
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