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LAUSD chairman Austin Beutner at a Monday briefing confirmed plans for a mid-April opening for preschool and elementary school students and targeted the end of April for secondary schools. Elementary schools could have opened this month. However, the District has been negotiating with the United Teachers Los Angeles…

Former Democratic presidential contender Andrew Yang is planning to enter the race to succeed New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio in November. The former tech executive, who was born in upstate New York and has lived for years in the Hell's Kitchen neighborhood of Manhattan, has been telling New York power brokers that…

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo hinted at the possibility of another statewide shutdown Monday but said for now state policy is focused on containment by county and by neighborhood and the small gatherings excoriated by health officials are way deadlier than restaurants and bars. Schools are even less risky and in a…

New York City public schools are closing to in-person learning for 300,000 students starting tomorrow as the COVID-19 infection rate in NYC approaches 3%, a shutdown threshold previously agreed upon by the city, teachers and parents. The chancellor of the nation’s largest school district, which has been open in person…

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said Friday city schools could close temporarily for in-person classes as early as Monday as coronavirus infections rise. "We should get ready," de Blasio said in his weekly Friday appearance on The Brian Lehrer Show on New York public radio's WNYC, saying parents should "have a plan…

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said bars, restaurants, establishments with New York State liquor licenses (like bowling alleys), and gyms must close at 10 pm statewide starting Friday in a new crackdown to contain COVID-19. The tightening and hyper-vigilance doesn’t bode well for movie theaters, which have been…