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SAVE SUMMER CAMPS www.newyorkedge.org

Online Summer Camp Our online summer camps will feature:

An Open Letter to Mayor de Blasio, Speaker Johnson and Members of the City Council: After this extended period of virtual learning and social distancing, our city’s kids need and deserve enjoyable summer programming. And as we begin to reopen our city’s economy, parents will need safe, enrich­ ing programs for their children.

As the largest provider of afterschool and summer camp programs in New York City schools, we serve 40,000 students in 130 schools in all five boroughs. While New York Edge – formerly the Sports & Arts in Schools Foundation – has received notice from the Department of Youth and Community Development that summer programs are sus­ pended, we have a plan to continue serving our students.

mailed to homes for hands­on learning, with technology/ • Kits equipment support also available.

projects among students under the leadership of New • Group York Edge instructors, specializing in areas such as chess, coding, dance and visual arts.

council for ongoing discussion and opportunities • Aforstudent peer leadership.

• Academic specialized tutoring as an additional offering.

New York Edge has been formulating a plan for summer camp that can be delivered online, or – if it becomes possible – in person with addi­ tional measures to support social distancing.

After schools physically closed in March, we successfully moved our afterschool academic, arts, health & wellness and college readiness programs online, positioning us to provide online summer engage­ ment and enrichment. Whether we deliver summer camp online or in person, we will focus on activities that promote collaboration, empow­ erment, and choice in addition to enjoyment and reinforcing academic progress.

We need your support and continued funding to make summer pro­ grams available this year in accordance with public health and safe­ ty rules. We ask that you please fight for our city’s youth to have a summer by encouraging DYCD to restore funding and to continue our Council citywide funding of $1 million (under the After School Enrich­ ment Initiative) in the FY 21 budget. By continuing to support us, you will not only serve our city’s children and their parents, you will pre­ serve the infrastructure of nonprofits like ours, which will be needed more than ever when students return to school.

Warmly,

Rachael Gazdick CEO, New York Edge

Modified In-Person Summer Camp In the event that we can gather, we will lead camps with small groups operating in large areas to support social distancing guidelines of 6 feet. We propose:

• Camps at “grab and go” school locations. enrollment up to 50 students per site, with students • Overall divided into small groups. A staff member would be provided for every 5 participants in each classroom/activity.

would run for 2 weeks with different groups of • Program students enrolled. student would receive their own equipment and supplies • Each to avoid sharing. wellness checks and routine check­in points would • Daily occur throughout the camp day to ensure participants remain healthy.

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JON LENTZ Editor-in-chief

LAST WEEK, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced a tech-driven initiative to “reimagine education” in the coronavirus era. The effort, in partnership with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, envisions technology as a solution to an array of challenges: not just providing instruction for students stuck at home due to social distancing restrictions, but also addressing educational inequality and access to higher education while better serving students with disabilities.

“The old model of everybody goes and sits in the classroom, and the teacher is in front of that classroom and teaches that class, and you do that all across the city, all across the state, all these buildings, all these physical classrooms – why, with all the technology you have?” Cuomo asked.

Critics pounced. Some attacked Cuomo for recruiting another billionaire – along with former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and former Google CEO Eric Schmidt – to drive New York’s coronavirus response. Others blasted Bill Gates for championing standardized testing and the Common Core standards. But for many, the biggest issue is Cuomo’s suggestion that students can learn from home – with no explanation as to who might keep an eye on the kids when parents have to work.

This week, we lay out what schooling might look like in New York this fall – and why there’s a lot more to it than technology.

CONTENTS PRESIDENTIAL PRIMARY … 8

Andrew Yang is willing to sacrifice you.

THE FALL … 10 What will school look like when it returns?

EDUCATION FUNDING … 16

Money for schools is evaporating

TEACHERS … 18

What remote learning means for their contracts

THE SUMMER … 20 What will kids do without summer programs?

WINNERS & LOSERS … 26

Who was up and who was down last week

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OVERNIGHT SUBWAY SUSPENSION BEGINS

For the first time in over 100 years, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority suspended 24-hour subway service, shutting it down from 1 a.m. to 5 a.m. every night for the foreseeable future to clean and disinfect trains. MTA Chairman and CEO Pat Foye said Gov. Andrew Cuomo

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would decide when full service would return, and Cuomo gave no indication when that might be other than after the pandemic ends. An estimated 11,000 straphangers per night, largely essential workers, are expected to be impacted. On the first night of suspended service, New York City Transit Interim President Sarah Feinberg said that 2,000 homeless New Yorkers were removed from the subway, although

the city said only 252 had contact with city outreach workers, and 139 accepted aid.

Many wound up on the streets, or simply shifted to buses. The night was also plagued with problems.

At one station, private workers hired by the MTA did not receive adequate personal protective equipment and six walked out partway through the night. Some riders hadn’t known about the closure until members of the news media told them when asking for reactions.

“Whoever heard of disinfecting a subway car? Well, now you learn. You have to disinfect subway cars.”

– Gov. Andrew Cuomo, after what was hopefully not the first time the MTA disinfected a subway car, via the Daily News

THE PHASES OF REOPENING

Cuomo provided more details about how regions of the state can begin to reopen. He broke down the process into four phases, with different industries reopening in each based on the risk involved and

COVER WARS New York’s rival tabloids are more alike than they’d like to believe. The New York Post and the Daily News both memorialized the unprecedented shutdown of the city’s subway with the cover line, “scrubway.” Sure, the Post went with a more provocative image, but both tabs ended up with the same thing: a not-so-great pun.

“We cannot police our way out of this pandemic.”

– Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez, who is declining to prosecute socialdistancing cases, after 35 of 40 people arrested in the borough were black, via The New York Times

necessity of the service.

The first phase will include construction, manufacturing and some curbside pickup retail.

Provided there is no sign of a resurgence of new COVID-19 cases, the region can move on to the next phases, reopening retail stores fully, professional services, restaurants and hotels. The final phase would bring the return of arts, entertainment and education. The statewide stay-at-home order is in effect until May 15, and although Cuomo indicated parts of the state might begin reopening around then, he said that no regions are ready yet. The governor laid out seven criteria a region would need to meet before reopening, including 14 straight days of death and hospitalization declines, 30 contract tracers per 1,000 residents and keeping 30% of hospital beds open. Some upstate leaders expressed concern that they wouldn’t be able to meet certain requirements, like hiring the number of contact tracers Cuomo required.

RACIAL DISPARITIES IN SOCIAL DISTANCE POLICING Police in New York City have begun enforcing social distancing as more people are spending time outside in the warmer weather. But it’s

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not happening equitably.

A viral video showed a violent confrontation with a bystander while an officer attempted to make a social distancing arrest. The same weekend, photos showed mostly white New Yorkers crowded Manhattan parks with nary a cop in sight.

According to The New York Times, of 40 people arrested for failing to socially distance between March 17 and May 4 in Brooklyn, 35 were black, four were Hispanic and only one was white. Even Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams, a former police officer and supporter of the NYPD, thought that social distancing enforcement would exacerbate tensions between police and minority communities.

NEW YORK WILL HAVE A PRESIDENTIAL PRIMARY, AFTER ALL The cancellation of the state’s June 23 Democratic presidential primary only

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lasted about one week.

After U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders suspended his campaign, the Democratic co-chair and commissioner of the state Board of Elections had removed him and every other candidate who had dropped out from the ballot, leaving only Joe Biden. The Board of Elections decided that holding a moot contest would just risk lives during a pandemic. However, former presidential candidate Andrew Yang, joined by delegates for Sanders, sued to bring the race back. And a federal judge sided with them, ruling that since that state expanded absentee voting for the many other primary elections happening the same day, safety concerns did not warrant canceling the contest. The state Board of Elections has already appealed the decision, meaning that it may be reversed again.

TUESDAY 5/12 City & State hosts a 2 p.m. webinar on the needs of those most vulnerable to the coronavirus, featuring NYC Health Commissioner Oxiris Barbot and Aging Commissioner Lorraine Cortés-Vázquez.

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Should protests be allowed during COVID-19?

Ever since the coronavirus pandemic hit New York, the expression of free speech has been largely confined to social media posts, press releases and video conferences. But that’s beginning to change as attention shifts to how the NYPD is handling protests.

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and Police Commissioner Dermot Shea have asserted that public protests should not be allowed, but civil rights activists are pushing back. “You cannot constitutionally nor legally ban/suspend protected fundamental First Amendment rights of all New Yorkers,” Norman Siegel, a former head of the New York Civil Liberties Union, said in a letter to de Blasio and Shea.

There are limited options for asserting such rights through the legal system, given how many courtrooms have closed due to the pandemic. However, the court of public opinion remains open.

With the pandemic easing in New York City, people across the state are also making it increasingly clear (if not in word, then in deed) that 6 feet of space and a face mask is all you need to hang out in public. This has extended to protests in recent weeks from people on both the political left and right.

Nurses have protested poor working conditions throughout the pandemic.

Activists have donned masks to push for the release of inmates from state prisons. Upstaters have protested social distancing by honking their car horns during the governor’s daily press conference.

Viral online videos, meanwhile, are stoking longtime resentments over how the NYPD treats people of color.

“The difference between enforcement of social distancing in New York’s black and white communities is night and

TUESDAY 5/12 The state Senate Committee on New York City Education and its chairman, state Sen. John Liu, host a 6 p.m. online town hall on the impact of the coronavirus on the city’s schools.

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day,” Hawk Newsome, the president of Black Lives Matter of Greater New York, told Gothamist.

Like with other alleged violations of social distancing, police have issued summons in some situations, including on May 5 when the Reclaim Pride Coalition rallied outside a Manhattan hospital that was getting funding from a controversial religious organization.

Data on exactly who police are targeting for social distancing violations has yet to be released by the NYPD. Social media has become even more powerful during the pandemic, as many people spend much of their days in front of their computers and smartphones.

This in turn could push political leaders to rein in the police to some extent, especially if more and more people begin to feel that it is simply no big deal to be outside, whatever the reason.

That does not mean that the mayor will stop backing a department that has bent him to its will over the years.

“I want to caution that anytime an officer asks someone to observe social distancing or put on a mask, the response should be to follow the instruction of the officer,” de Blasio told reporters last week. “Respect goes both ways.”

Those comments have sparked further outrage, which in turn has solidified a cause shared by a broad range of people across the political spectrum – from Black Lives Matter activists to Trump supporters looking to get back to work.

While the dangers of a second wave of infections remains very real, New Yorkers are heading outside as the spring weather improves. Some of them will inevitably want to voice their public opinions, and that could shift political power in the activists’ favor.

- Zach Williams

Details on state budget cuts are expected around May 15. Look out for a financial update from the state comptroller, which will signal the Division of Budget is about to make a move.

WEDNESDAY 5/13 The New York City Council holds its secondever remote stated meeting at 1:30 p.m. The council is considering a handful of major bills, including one that would enact a one-year eviction moratorium.

ANDREW CUOMO’S

AMERICAN REVOLUTION 6

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BY ZACH WILLIAMS

MONTHS BEFORE the coronavirus pandemic began, Gov. Andrew Cuomo was floating the idea of joining forces with neighboring states to legalize recreational marijuana. While the coronavirus pandemic has put that on hold, the crisis has nevertheless led a regional confederacy of northeastern states to band together.

New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts and Delaware are joining forces to purchase medical supplies and coordinate the eventual reopening of their economies

– declaring their independence from the president’s “total” authority to reopen states.

Though Cuomo’s press briefings are a far cry from Lexington and Concord, they’re certainly being heard ’round the world. So break out the fifes and drums; here’s how the newly rebellious seven states compare to the 13 colonies that started a revolution back in 1776 – and how Cuomo stacks up against our onedollar founding father.

LEADERS

REVOLUTIONARY ADVERSARIES

DEFINING DOCUMENT

KEY WEAPON

FOUNDING IDEA

EARLY CHALLENGES

FIRST CAPITOL

ROCKY STARTS

Thirteen colonies: George Washington could not tell a lie after cutting down his father’s cherry tree.

Seven states: Andrew Cuomo was his father’s political hatchet man who likes to Get Things Done.

Thirteen colonies: Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776 Seven states: The Cuomo PowerPoint Presentation of April 13, 2020 Thirteen colonies: No taxation without representation Seven states: No workstation without respiration Thirteen colonies: New York, New York Seven states: Albany, New York

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Thirteen colonies: Alexander Hamilton was Washington’s righthand man.

Seven states: Secretary to the Governor Melissa DeRosa, like Hamilton, is nonstop.

Thirteen colonies: King George III of England – the “mad king who lost America” Seven states: President Donald Trump of Queens – @RealDonaldTrump Thirteen colonies: Pennsylvania rifles Seven states: NYC Clean hand sanitizer Thirteen colonies: Sharing the costs of revolutionary debt Seven states: Sharing the costs of stockpiling ventilators

Thirteen colonies: The ragtag Continentals were being trounced by the British until the colonists turned things around at the Battle of Trenton.

Seven states: The states can’t seem to agree on one set of marching orders. Can Cuomo find his own Delaware to cross?

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DECLARING INDEPENDENCE LIKE IT’S 1776.

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A Q&A with New York City Council Public Safety Committee Chairman

When America catches a cold, black and brown communities get pneumonia.

DONOVAN RICHARDS What preparation had been done in New York City and state for the coronavirus threat?

There was no concentrated effort to ensure there were resources on the ground. We needed a lot more coordination from city agencies. One of the reasons my community was blessed is because we did go through Hurricane Sandy. So a lot of our local community-based organizations knew where we needed to go, how we needed to respond.

In order to address a pandemic of this nature, we have to address the inequalities that certainly continue to exist in communities. Black and

brown communities specifically have been the hardest-hit. If we are not addressing these issues prior to a pandemic, we will be here. And now the world gets to see once again, just as Sandy did, that when America catches a cold, black and brown communities get pneumonia.

There’s been discussion of New York City expanding benefits for workers killed in the line of duty, but there’s debate over whether the disease should qualify. How would you address it?

As Washington looks at another stimulus package, these are all things that I think can be addressed

similar to 9/11. It’s taken a long time to address that fight. This is a question of budget priorities and do we value the essential workers who really are putting their lives on the front lines every day for every New Yorker.

With the lack of federal aid for states and municipalities, is there a risk that there won’t be enough resources for emergency response?

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in New York City, and I’m certainly supporting the governor and the mayor in their call for Washington to get it right for New York City. I mean, you’re talking about jump-starting an economy, you’re talking about valuing essential workers – and we need that money! The congressional delegation is working together to push a package for our entire state. But state and local governments absolutely need resources from the federal government. We can’t get out of this hole without them.

Does the New York City Council plan on introducing any legislation on health and safety in workplaces?

There was a package introduced for essential workers – for them to get much more resources during this time of the pandemic. So we’re looking at that bill very closely. I’m also looking from a smallbusiness perspective as well on how resources are being delved out across the city. Last I read, 9% of all loans and grants (from the city government) went to Queens. Nearly 66% went to Manhattan. We want a recovery that benefits not just Manhattan, but the outer boroughs as well.

United Way of New York City (UWNYC) is accepting applications for Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act funding through the federal Emergency Food & Shelter Program (EFSP) to support the services of local emergency food and shelter providers.

Awards are available through a competitive application process to private voluntary organizations and to local government agencies serving the public free of charge and having: an accounting system and checking account; a Federal Employer’s tax payer Identification Number (FEIN); an emergency food or shelter program operating at least six months at the time of application. Private nonprofit organizations must also have a voluntary board of directors, practice nondiscrimination and must not proselytize. Organizations with a budget of $25,000 or more must provide a statement of certified, independent audit.

Applications are now available at www.feednyc.org and are due May 22, 2020. Please contact Loresa Wright (lwright@uwnyc. org) or Miguelina Diaz (mdiaz@uwnyc.org) with any questions.

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C O M M E N TA R Y

ARE YOU WILLING TO DIE FOR ANDREW YANG? This is what happens when dilettantes start to play with politics.

by B E N A D L E R

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OME POLITICIANS and government officials approach politics and policymaking with a focus on making tangible improvements in the lives of their constituents.

And then some politicians are like Andrew Yang – and President Donald Trump, Herman Cain, Ben Carson and Marianne Williamson. Vainglorious dilettantes without prior experience in public office, these rich, uninformed celebrities and business executives have run for the presidency and been showered with undeserved media attention and online activist adulation. Sharing debate stages with experienced statesmen and women, they either degrade the discourse or – as in the case of Yang, a former startup executive and failed Democratic presidential candidate – redirect it towards their idiosyncratic signature proposal.

Trump’s victory and subsequent mishandling of nearly every aspect of the new coronavirus pandemic demonstrate the deadly consequences of entrusting an unserious candidate with the power to save lives, or to ruin them. But Trump is not the only novelty candidate from New York willing to endanger residents of his home state: Yang is too. And he very well might succeed.

On May 5, U.S. District Judge Analisa Torres ordered the New York State Board of Elections to hold New York’s Democratic presidential primary on June 23.

The suit was filed by Yang and a handful of New Yorkers who had filed to serve as delegates for Yang and for U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont at the Democratic National Convention.

Reports from Wisconsin show more than 50 COVID-19 patients likely contracted the virus by participating in their state’s April 7 election. New York has more than three times the population and 37 times as many confirmed cases, so it could mean passing the infection to hundreds of New Yorkers, who of course can in turn infect others.

If all of former Vice President Joe Biden’s opponents have dropped out, with the primary’s

result a foregone conclusion and the Democratic nominee already determined, what difference does canceling the primary make? In a normal election year, candidates can stop campaigning and remain on state primary ballots for which they qualified.

This is largely symbolic, but if a candidate obtains 25% or more of the delegates to the Democratic National Convention, as Sanders did last time, he or she can appoint members of the committees that write the party platform and shape elements of the convention. That’s why Yang and some Sanders supporters are suing.

This is not a good reason, however, under the circumstances.

Yang has no chance of getting anywhere near 25%. Sanders may have a chance, as he has more than 25% of delegates won thus far. But his share of delegates has been below that threshold in the combined primary results of the contests held since he dropped out of the running for the nomination on April 8.

In addition, it is quite likely that there won’t be a Democratic National Convention this summer, as the coronavirus is expected to make such large gatherings unsafe until there is a vaccine, likely in 2021 at the earliest. The convention already has been postponed, from July to August, and some commentators are already urging the party to cancel it.

You’d think, from the way Yang’s lawyer called canceling the New York primary “an extremely dangerous precedent” and Sanders’ campaign manager saying Torres’ decision “restored basic democracy,” that canceling primaries with only one candidate running was a dramatic departure from standard practice.

In fact, not holding primaries when there is only one candidate is quite normal. The only difference is that usually applies only to races where the only candidate running is also the only one on the ballot. There won’t be a Republican presidential primary in New York this year because no one is running against Donald Trump for New York’s delegates.

While the vast majority of New York voters will have a congressional or state primary on June

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23, there are 20 counties that won’t hold congressional or state primaries this June because they have no races with more than one candidate on the ballot.

The Democratic presidential primary falls into an atypical category, in which there are other candidates on the ballot but none who are actively campaigning against the frontrunner. New York state technically canceled the primary by removing candidates who dropped out, which is legal, but the Sanders and Yang camps argue that they only “suspended” their campaigns and they want to stay on the ballot.

But why is it necessary to endanger New Yorkers so that Yang or Sanders supporters can cast a purely symbolic vote?

The best answer is the state could just hold the primary by mail, thus eliminating the risk of transmitting the virus. In theory, that would be the best solution. But the Cuomo administration believes it lacks the authority under existing law to switch to an all-mail voting sys-

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tem for the June primary, so it has instead ordered the Board of Elections to send voters forms to request absentee ballots.

Unfortunately, local subsidiaries – especially the New York City Board of Elections – are, in the words of The New York Times editorial board, “rife with incompetence.” It’s likely that many voters won’t receive their request forms for absentee ballots or won’t receive the ballots themselves.

That’s why, for contested state and congressional primaries, there will also be in-person voting as a backup option.

So, to recap: There is no contested Democratic presidential primary, and holding this vote will not determine the party’s nominee. There won’t even necessarily be a means of influencing the party’s platform or its convention programming, as there may be no convention. There is a public health risk associated with holding the primary, and yet Yang – a Manhattan resident and Schenectady native who demon-

strated no particular interest in New York politics until now – unless you count musing about running for mayor of New York City – is attempting to force the state to put its citizens at risk.

While the Sanders camp has a more substantive reason to fight for delegates than Yang does, they may be overestimating the importance of the party platform. The political science literature tends to find that party platforms have little effect on presidential candidates’ positions.

At least Sanders fans have a coherent worldview that they are promoting within the Democratic Party and an understandable concern that lower turnout without a presidential contest on the ballot in June will harm progressive insurgent candidates in congressional and state races.

The same cannot be said for Yang or his supporters. Whereas Sanders has dedicated a life in public service to fighting for equality, Yang is a tech executive who ran a gimmicky campaign

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based on a peculiar obsession with giving each American $1,000 per month. Yang’s answer to almost any question, including how he’d fight climate change, was the universal basic income, which would cost $3.9 trillion per year.

Yang’s panglossian ideology is arguably libertarian: He frames the federal government’s response to climate change as financially enabling individuals to relocate – never mind that $12,000 per year doesn’t buy much high ground to live on in his own city. Compared to existing social welfare programs, a universal basic income is regressive, as it gives to rich and poor alike.

This is just more proof – as if any were needed after Trump – that “outsider” candidates who run to promote their personal brand or idiosyncratic ideas usually leave politics worse for their involvement.

The Sanders team probably suspects that harming down-ballot progressives is seen as a benefit of canceling the primary by New York’s Democratic establishment.

The election commissioners were appointed by Cuomo, who is a moderate allied with Biden.

But the answer to that is reforming state election law, starting with the state Board of Elections and its local counterparts, to make them professional, bureaucratic agencies with nonpolitical appointees at the helm and to expand voting rights. Sanders campaign adviser Jeff Weaver has called on the state Legislature to pass a law enabling an all vote-bymail primary. If the Sanders campaign disagrees with the Cuomo administration’s reading of whether that’s allowable under the state constitution, it should make that legal argument, not just try to force a primary that may have to be held in person.

Insurgent down-ballot candidates are being more harmed

by COVID-19’s interference with their ability to campaign than they are by the primary’s cancellation. As Sanders himself did early in his career, they might just have to try again next time until they win.

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SCHOOL’S OUT

EVER?

New York schools weren’t prepared for the coronavirus.

Will they be prepared to reopen this fall?

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S THE CORONAVIRUS pandemic rages in New York, more and more businesses are shuttering, both temporarily and permanently. The federal government has been providing relief across multiple aid packages, but for some struggling small-business owners, it hasn’t been enough.

By the time June rolls around each year, students, teachers and staff are normally wrapping up their lesson plans, itching for summer vacation and the chance to take a break from school for a few months.

But not this year.

Just as it has done with virtually everything else, the coronavirus has changed schooling in New York into something unrecognizable – an all-remote, largely online effort at keeping students engaged, while dealing with immense obstacles like a lack of internet access or internet-connected devices, sick relatives and friends, and families in economic distress.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s announcement on May 1 that school buildings would remain closed and remote learning would continue for the rest of the academic year confirmed what many had already assumed. But it shed no light on what teaching would look like when buildings eventually reopen. Now, instead of taking a mental break from school, district leaders, school administrators, and city and state officials will spend the next few months figuring out how to reopen schools safely – whether that’s in September or not.

There may, however, be an upside to all that extra work. When Cuomo originally closed schools across the state in mid-March, many school districts only had days to figure out how to transition to remote learning and continue providing meals and other services to students who relied on them. At least this time around, there is more time to plan for how to educate kids across New York in the middle of a pandemic. “We know that the way we closed schools was not good because there was no plan in place,” said Michael Mulgrew, president of the United Federation of Teachers, the public school teachers union in New York City. “That’s why the educators, as a community, we’ve just said we’re going to start putting our own plans in place.”

There are a number of questions that loom large for school districts making plans to reopen. What kinds of coronavirus testing and tracing systems have to be in place before students and staff feel safe going back to school? How do school districts build modified schedules around social distancing? How could schools improve and expand remote learning? Perhaps most importantly, how do districts prepare for the eventuality that the coronavirus could throw those well laid plans into disarray if students, teachers or their families get sick, or if a second wave of the virus forces schools to close again?

What appears clear to experts and advocates is that schools are unlikely to welcome all students back into their buildings all of the time come September.

Spokespeople for the state Education Department and the New York City Department of Education did not comment on plans for reopening, but city schools Chancellor Richard Carranza called it only a “50-50” shot that schools will reopen in September.

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SOCIAL DISTANCING 101

GETTING TO SCHOOL Set aside social distancing in classrooms – districts first have to figure out how to transport students from home to school. That’s especially true in rural parts of the state, where a student’s home might be 50 miles away.

Some think even cutting the number of passengers on a school bus in half won’t be enough to ensure six feet of distance between each student.

IN HALLWAYS Half the fun of getting lockers in school is huddling around them to talk and mess around before class.

But to maintain at least six feet of distance between people, lockers will have to be spaced apart, and even walking the hallways may have to be scheduled and regulated.

IN THE CAFETERIA No more running to the cafeteria, jostling in front of your friends to be first in line for tater tots. Lunch lines could soon resemble the socially distanced line for Trader Joe’s.

ON THE PLAYGROUND Contact sports in gym class and any kind of competitive team sports seem unlikely to be started up again in September. While those can be canceled outright, teachers and administrators will have the unenviable job of keeping rambunctious kids apart on the playground.

If schools do reopen then and social distancing measures are still recommended, they would likely operate on a rotating schedule. A class could be split into two groups, for example, and group A goes to the physical school building on Monday, Wednesday and Friday, and group B goes in on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Groups A and B would then switch their days each week so each student gets the same amount of in-person instruction. Others have suggested a split schedule with half the class attending school in the morning and half in the afternoon. Mulgrew said that in overcrowded New York City schools, a schedule where students attend class every third day may be necessary.

Of course, when kids aren’t scheduled to be physically in class, they’d still have to attend remote classes and work from home. Though some praise the speed with which schools made the transition to re-

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SOCIAL DISTANCING – the six-feetapart mandate that has governed public life in the age of COVID-19 – doesn’t appear to be going away anytime soon.

Rather, as state officials hatch plans to reopen the economy, enforcing social distancing in workplaces and businesses has been a top priority. That’s true of schools, too. One potential strategy is breaking classes in half and moving to an every-other-day schedule in which only half the class is in the building at once. A school with fewer people means more distance between students.

But when it comes to social distancing in schools, it’s not just about spacing desks and chairs far apart enough to feel safe. Here are a few of the less obvious places that districts and administrators have to consider when it comes to preparing for a reopening.

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mote learning, the transition has illuminated inequalities among students.

One of the challenges has been getting every student an internet-connected device. A significant amount of reporting has been done on this issue in New York City. As of late April, 19,000 students who had requested devices – mostly from a pool of 300,000 iPads the city Department of Education bought in the past two months – still don’t have them. Some students in New York City also lack access to Wi-Fi. The speedy transition to remote learning has also highlighted inequalities in rural school districts. High-speed broadband internet remains elusive in rural parts of the state, and many school districts don’t have devices to hand out or buy for their students. David Little, the executive director of the Rural Schools Association of New York State, said that when the Smart Schools Bond Act – a $2 billion initiative to invest in classroom technology

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and broadband connectivity – was set up in 2014, schools in the New York City area were able to buy these devices while rural schools spent money on hardwiring their facilities for internet. Essentially, rural schools have been forced to play catch up.

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remote learning more accessible by the time school starts again in the fall. Kevin Casey, executive director of the School Administrators Association of New York State, said in parts of the state that don’t have internet access, they are deploying school buses as mobile Wi-Fi hot spots to reach students closer to their homes.

Other innovative efforts could be piloted over the summer. School districts could use the time to conduct a thorough inventory of which students lack devices or internet access and address those situations individually.

While school districts may be able to make some progress on providing the means for remote learning, it’s still a challenge to make it work. A variety of limitations – a lack of physical space, supervision and individual attention – can still stand in the way of effective remote education. “Hardware is only a prerequisite to the time and ability of those students to learn online,” said David Bloomfield, an education professor at Brooklyn College and CUNY Graduate Center. “That has a lot to do with home circumstance as well as their ability to comprehend the material.”

The challenge of reopening schools doesn’t just have to do with learning and what happens in the classroom – it’s every other task and activity in school’s orbit, including transportation, walking through the hallways and eating lunch in the cafeteria. If school buses usually transport 60 students and that number is cut in half because of a split schedule, 30 students is still too many on a bus to maintain social distancing, Little said. And what about spacing out lockers or policing the way students travel through the hallways? Some have suggested that instead of students

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The estimated number of New York City students that lacked internet-enabled devices, according to surveys conducted by the city before the transition to remote learning

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The number of New York City students who requested iPads from the city Department of Education as of April 23. The city says it delivered that many

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The percentage of people in rural parts of New York state that the FCC says has access to rural broadband. These FCC numbers are widely dismissed as inaccurate, however, because they count census blocks as “covered” even if only one houshold in that census block has access to broadband internet.

moving from class to class throughout the day, teachers move between classrooms. It’s less foot traffic in the hallway. But it could get complicated when a chemistry teacher comes into a English classroom unequipped with beakers or Bunsen burners.

These are all questions that will have to be addressed, but a perfect solution that addresses them all may not exist. “I think that until you’ve got a vaccine or until you’ve got this massive testing and tracing system that the governor has described, you have to assume that people aren’t safe in doing this,” Little said. “They’re just trying to keep the rate of transmission below what the hospitals can handle.”

Little’s point gets back to the source of the problem: the coronavirus. While the rate of new cases in New York has been slowing, it’s unclear what the rate of transmission will look like in September. And as experts continue to warn of a second wave of the virus in the fall, schools will have to prepare for a full school shutdown, even if they do reopen briefly. There’s also the possibility that parents and families won’t be comfortable sending their children back to school in September. The same concerns apply for teachers and staff who live with people who are vulnerable to the virus, or who are vulnerable themselves.

Practically, a number of new hygienic measures will have to be put in place, with face masks and coverings for everyone in the building. Asking kindergarteners to wash their hands for at least 20 seconds and stay 6 feet away from their classmates, however, is easier said than done. “When we implement all these different procedures, there’s going to have to be some level of training, of professional development for teaching staff, administrative staff, because they in turn will have to educate not only the students, but parents with pickup and drop-off issues, vendors, anyone that might come to the school,” Casey said.

After announcing that schools will close for the rest of this academic year, Cuomo said that schools have to start developing reopening plans, including protocols to safeguard students and staff, and that those plans will have to be approved by the state. The state Education Department also recently announced a task force that will guide the reopening of schools, made up of educators, parents, school board members and others.

But having to make those plans – including provisions for expanding remote learning or running school buses more frequently – while Cuomo is discussing 20% cuts in state aid to schools if federal aid doesn’t come through, makes the task especially daunting.

“You cut state aid 20% and I’ll tell you what happens to a third of the rural schools,” Little said. “You don’t have to worry about them opening, because they won’t.”

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SUBTRACTION PROBLEM How can schools keep kids safe and educated when funding is evaporating?

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HE SIMPLE TRUTH is that no one really knows how the coronavirus pandemic will upend public education in New York – or even what the education funding reality looks like one month after the state budget was approved.

Tax revenues will likely continue to plummet. State budget cuts of historic proportions could happen. The federal government may or may not provide billions in additional stimulus money. Gov. Andrew Cuomo has a new effort to “reimagine education.” Increasing taxes remains a possibility. Despite so much being up in the air, the fiscal picture will become more clear in the coming weeks, even if all this uncertainty takes longer to resolve.

On May 15, the Cuomo administration is expected to detail those deep cuts the governor outlined at the beginning of the month. State lawmakers would then have 10 days to make any legislative changes.

Voters will cast exclusively absentee ballots on June 9 to approve local school budgets.

If any budgets get rejected, there would be limited time to reconsider those plans since the new fiscal year for schools begins on July 1. “Our dilemma is that there is more uncertainty than ever before about how any of this will turn out,” said Rick Timbs, executive director of the Statewide School Finance Consortium. “The new fiscal year is July 1. We’re cutting it kind of close.”

Big changes are in store for New York public schools whether or not the federal government provides billions in new funding this year. The governor is looking to change the education system as local leaders struggle to balance public health concerns with fiscal realities.

Schools have to maintain social distancing in cramped facilities. They have to figure out how teachers, staff and students are going to

get personal protective equipment. Do students need an extra mask after lunch? Distance learning requires new equipment and brings its own logistical challenges. “Everything we do about social distancing really amounts to making my schools less efficient,” said one suburban school superintendent, on the condition of anonymity to speak candidly. “We’re going to have less money to work with and more costs to deal with.”

Localities statewide face $8.2 billion in cuts moving forward compared to the recently approved state budget, according to a budget update released last month by the state Budget Division. The economic damage of the pandemic has caused a 12.4% reduction in tax receipts over the past couple months, and another report said the state could face $243 billion in damages over the next few years. What this will mean for public schools in the coming months will be detailed by the Cuomo administration sometime around May 15 after state Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli releases his own update on the state’s fiscal position.

The state Legislature will have 10 days to counter any cuts proposed by the governor.

While some lawmakers want to raise taxes on the ultrawealthy, it remains to be seen how much they would try to overcome resistance from the governor. His popularity has skyrocketed during the pandemic and some lawmakers may think twice be-

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fore pushing for tax increases of any type during a reelection year.

Some downstate incumbents might lean left to fend off progressive challenges in the June 23 Democratic primary, especially in the Assembly where Speaker Carl Heastie has previously backed tax increases. The political incentives, however, run the other way in the state Senate where suburban swing districts on Long Island and in the Hudson Valley could determine whether or not Democrats win a supermajority in November.

School districts have little time to prepare their budgets that are slated to go before voters on June 9. It remains to be seen whether superintendents will ask voters,

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many of whom have economic difficulties of their own, to approve property taxes above the statewide cap. “We’re all trying to balance the needs of our communities against the realities of the economy,” the suburban superintendent said.

Legislative leaders said they are holding out hope that federal aid will limit the need for confrontation with the governor. “Our first order of business is fighting for this federal aid with the governor,” said state Senate Education Committee Chairwoman Shelley Mayer. “Without the money, these conversations are almost too dreadful to happen.” The governor, state legislative leaders and the entire New York congressional delegation – Republicans and Democrats – are part of a national effort to secure hundreds of billions in new funding for states and local governments. But despite the bipartisan support of the push, key GOP leaders stand in the way.

President Donald Trump and top Republicans have floated several conditions that are anathema to Democrats, from changing “sanctuary city” policies to shielding private businesses from coronavirus-relat-

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ed lawsuits. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has made any deal contingent on the inclusion of aid for states, but one of her top deputies, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer of Maryland, said May 6 that the chamber will likely not return to Washington, D.C., until a deal is struck.

Even if the federal government comes through with billions of dollars in additional state aid, public schools might only get a piece of it. While the state budget held funding levels officially flat for schools, New York City schools lost $716.9 million in state funding as soon as the city received that same amount of money from the federal government. New York City alone faces an additional $500 million funding cut moving forward. “The big takeaway is that high-poverty districts are getting disproportionately impacted by the COVID crisis,” Drew Atchison of the American Institutes for Research, told Chalkbeat New York.

State lawmakers and activists have argued for years that the governor is not abiding by a legal requirement to fund a “sound basic education” for students across the state. The

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governor has his own way of defining a “progressive” approach to public education, which just so happens to increase his own power over public education. While the pandemic interrupted his efforts to change education funding earlier this year, he is eying a new opportunity to make his mark on the issue.

The governor appointed Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates to lead an effort to “reimagine” how technology could revolutionize an education system that is still modeled on the traditional teacher-student dynamic in a physical classroom.

“Let’s start talking about really revolutionizing education,” Cuomo said at one of his recent daily briefings. “It’s about time.” Organized labor, education activists and others have expressed suspicions about the idea of listening to a billionaire philanthropist, considering his private sector tendencies.

Legislative leaders told City & State that they are willing to hear the governor out so long as stakeholders like parents, teachers and local officials are looped in. “I’m concerned, but (I’m) hopeful that all concerned parties will be joined together,” said Assembly Education Committee Chairman Michael Benedetto. “We’ll see.” That same conclusion applies to the issue of education at large.

“If we want to reimagine education, let’s start with addressing the need for social workers, mental health counselors, school nurses, enriching arts courses, advanced courses and smaller class sizes in school districts across the state,” New York State United Teachers President Andrew Pallotta said in a statement. “Let’s recognize educators as the experts they are.”

In other words, any attempts to disrupt the status quo could inflame longtime political conflicts in state politics.

It all gets very complicated when the local, state and federal governments operate on their own schedules when it comes to funding public schools. The governor and state lawmakers have to begin figuring things out in the second half of May. Local school budgets are being determined the following month. Plans at all levels can be interrupted at any time by the whims of the president and the spread of the coronavirus.

How will the politics surrounding school budgets play out? Experts agree on one thing. “Pick your crystal ball,” said Lawrence Levy, executive dean of Hofstra University’s National Center for Suburban Studies. “Any analyst who makes predictions has better than a 50-50 chance of looking like an idiot.”

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HOME WORK Remote classes have been a challenge for students and teachers alike. Unions want to make sure teachers aren’t forgotten.

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HEN THE CORONAVIRUS pandemic forced Gov. Andrew Cuomo to close schools across the state in midMarch, teachers found themselves in a totally unprecedented situation.

In just a matter of days, schooling needed to shift to an entirely remote model, upending the traditional school day and lesson plans. In both the switch to online learning and planning to reopen schools in the fall, unions have been at the forefront to ensure teachers don’t get mistreated while many of them are going far beyond traditional expectations.

Although a handful of counties and individual school districts had already announced closures before Cuomo signed an executive order on March 16 requiring all schools across the state to shut down by March 18, the switch to remote learning needed to happen swiftly. In New York City, the district had just one week to figure out what online learning would look like, both for students and for teachers.

This also meant that in just the course of a week, the United Federation of Teachers had to negotiate fair working conditions for its members who would now be working from home. Their contract, meticulously crafted, was designed for the traditional classroom. So the union and the district quickly came to agreements over best practices to ensure that demands on teachers

and other staffers like guidance counselors were not unreasonable. “It’s been a challenge,” United Federation of Teachers President Michael Mulgrew said. “There was no plan in place to do any of this. We don’t have anything in our contract that covers something like remote learning.”

The biggest change came in the form of an expedited grievance process, condensing what could normally take months into only about a week. Given the unusual circumstances educators found themselves in, coming to a faster resolution on issues that may arise with a new system of teaching took precedent. Mulgrew said that about 50 complaints have been filed under the new system, many simply the result of minor miscommunications and otherwise working out kinks in a system that required a quick learning curve. At the beginning, for example, some people were attempting to recreate a traditional school day, even though it was clear such a method would never work. “It’s been about a balance of trying to make sure that we won’t allow anyone to be taken advantage of,” Mulgrew said. “But also at the same time, understanding that this is uncharted territory, and teachers will always go above and beyond.”

The same conversations were happening across the state, according to New York State United Teachers President Andrew Pallotta. Although the specifics of

what students and teachers needed to ensure continued education during the pandemic varied slightly by region, districts and local union chapters quickly stepped up to figure it out. “What I got from our local presidents from around the state was that there was a lot of cooperation,” Pallotta said. “And just like in any negotiation, there’s a give and a take, and what makes sense.” He gave as a somewhat extreme example that just because teachers were working from home, it would be unacceptable for districts to schedule remote meetings late at night.

The issue also arose of teachers working at times they were not meant to without extra compensation. Perhaps the most controversial example was that school districts, including New York City, mandated that teachers work through spring break as well as on two religious holidays, on the word of the governor. Mulgrew said he and his members understood working on the five days after Easter given the circumstances, but took issue with being forced to work on the first full day of Passover and Good Friday, both major religious observances. Mulgrew said his union negotiated a package that prevented anyone who took off those days from being penalized, but still plans to get full compensation for the seven additional work days that teachers were supposed to have off. “Look, under

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the emergency orders … they can force us to work, but they can’t force us to work for free,” Mulgrew said.

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Similar issues may arise over the summer if school districts decide to continue with classes. Although Cuomo has ordered schools to remain closed for the rest of the school year, the structure of summer school remains something that still needs to be worked out. Cuomo said decisions about that will come at the end of May. In Buffalo, for example, some districts are considering enhanced summer school programs. “I would think it would be wrong to mandate that teachers have to teach summer school because some of them have other jobs that they have to do,” Buffalo Teachers Federation President Phil Rumore told Spectrum News. He added that he expected plenty of teachers would volunteer nonetheless, but the situation would likely necessitate a compensation package for teachers. Pallotta said he supports voluntary summer school programming with local control over what that may look like, including the potential for limited in-person learning.

With cash-strapped districts facing massive state and local cuts to funding, it’s unclear where the extra pay might come from. Already, many districts are warning of staff cuts if they lose funding, which Cuomo has said is possible absent additional federal aid. Pallotta said that his union will be involved in any potential cuts to ensure they don’t come in places that directly impact the day-to-day teaching of children. But he said schools have

long been underfunded, which is why the union had been calling for a new tax on millionaires and billionaires before the coronavirus crisis. He said that the union will continue to advocate for that tax now to avoid cuts, even though the governor has resisted calls for new revenue sources. “We will fight these (layoffs) tooth and nail because you can’t move this state forward if you’re going to eliminate educators,” Pallotta said.

In addition to new state taxes, Pallotta said New York State United Teachers is also putting pressure on federal leaders to get additional funding in an upcoming aid package. He said he and other union leaders have been “working closely” with both U.S. Sens. Charles Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand.

The next big step will come when schools are scheduled to reopen in the fall.

Cuomo has ordered schools and districts to begin formulating plans for reopening.

Mulgrew said that in New York City, negotiations between the union and school leaders are still very preliminary. He has been vocal about schools ensuring the safety of both teachers and students, including implementing adequate social distancing in classrooms and adding robust COVID-19 testing infrastructure at schools. “If people make decisions based on politics versus safety – which I don’t believe we’re going to have – then we’re going to fight them,” Mulgrew said. “Straight up, it’s just going to be a fight.”

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THE NEW ACADEMIC CALENDAR MARCH 15: New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announced that schools would close the next day. Gov. Andrew Cuomo gave the city just 24 hours to figure out how to continue providing meals and other services for students.

MARCH 16: Schools in New York City begin their monthslong closure. Cuomo signed an executive order ordering all schools across the state to close by March 18 and gave the city until midnight to submit a plan to ensure that essential workers had access to child care.

MARCH 23: The first day of remote learning. Students were off the previous week as teachers, school officials and union leaders worked to ramp up remote learning and set the ground rules for teachers.

APRIL 9 - APRIL 17: The city required that teachers work over what was supposed to be spring break, at the behest of

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Cuomo. Classes were even held on the religious holidays of Passover, which began on April 8, and on Good Friday, April 10.

END OF MAY: The estimated time frame from Cuomo for when he will make a decision about holding summer school.

De Blasio has suggested that remote learning will continue during the summer months for those that need it, but he has not offered any specific details yet.

JUNE 26: The last scheduled day of classes. Schools will remain closed through the end of the academic year.

EARLY SEPTEMBER: Beginning of the 2020-2021 school year. Union officials have begun preliminary discussions with school leaders about how to safely begin in-person teaching again in the fall. Cuomo said schools would need to develop reopening plans that would need to be approved by the state.

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UMMER CAMPS and public beaches in New York City could close. The city’s public pools have already been shuttered for the summer. And despite receiving some backlash, New York City’s summer youth employment program will probably remain canceled.

The summer is shaping up to be a somber experience for the city’s youth as the COVID-19 crisis drags on. Some programs, such as summer camps, are nearly impossible to implement in a way that allows children to stay at least 6 feet apart from each other. And as the city and state face massive budget shortfalls, funding programs to keep kids engaged is not a top priority for elected officials.

Some plans on what the summer holds for children in New York are still being figured out. Although Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced that schools will continue to operate remotely for the rest of the academic year, he won’t make a final decision on whether he’ll cancel summer school until the end of May. “Nobody can predict what the situation is going to be three weeks or four weeks from now,” he said during a press conference on May 1. Cuomo also has yet to clarify whether summer camps

across the state will be open this year, though some summer camp operators upstate remain hopeful their work will fall under essential child care services.

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio has indicated that remote learning will continue in some form over the summer as well to avoid a drastic learning divide when students return to class in the fall.

Details on how summer school will be implemented have yet to be released, but the mayor has indicated it will apply to a broader number of students than usual.

The city said it will prioritize its efforts over the summer on middle and high school students. “We’ll be using the summer months to ensure any student who needs additional targeted support receives it to remain on track,” Danielle Filson, a spokeswoman with the city Education Department, said in a statement.

But plans for other summer youth programs are coming to a close. New York City canceled its $124 million summer youth jobs program, which employs about 75,000 young adults each year. Nonprofits operating the program and program participants, who are between the ages of 14 and 21, have rallied against the cuts after they were announced in early April.

Supporters argue that the program could be adapted to a virtual system and help teenagers make money during a pe-

riod of immense economic distress. Teens Take Charge, a youth advocacy group, created a petition that has been signed by nearly 30,000 people since the cuts were announced, and dozens of local and state lawmakers have joined the push to restore the jobs initiative in some form.

The city stoked animosity among nonprofit providers with the initial announcement from the Department of Youth and Community Development, which gave organizations only one day to shutter their programs and lay off staff. The agency soon after changed its tone to give providers about a week to stop their work – but that hasn’t stymied calls for the program to return. “In terms of (the summer youth employment program), it would’ve been great if the city reached out to providers to come up with a solution,” said Evie Hantzopoulos, executive director of the nonprofit Global Kids. “Instead, we just got an email saying, as of tomorrow, cease operations. There was no collaboration or problem-solving.”

The likelihood that the jobs program returns remains slim. The city comptroller predicted the city will lose up to $6 billion in tax revenue because of the coronavirus, and if federal relief for states and localities doesn’t come through soon, additional cuts in funding could come from the state. And de Blasio’s decision to slash $1.3 billion from his executive budget has been criticized as a weak response to the city’s financial crisis.

“We have to be clear that right now we just do not have the money to do anything like we’ve ever done previously with summer youth,” de Blasio said at the start of May. “I think there are things we can do for young people for sure this summer.

But I think, right now, we have to assume they are not – with young people being out in communities by and large, a lot of it may have to be from home.” Still, the mayor hasn’t ruled out bringing the initiative back this year. “I don’t see a way to do it right now, but I’m always going to have an open door to the council, and budget adoption is not until the middle of June or later June,” he said on May 5.

The mayor’s proposed budget also puts most other city-funded summer youth programs on the chopping block, meaning many kids will be without virtual classes.

“These cuts, essentially, pretty much eliminate our youth services at Grand St. Settlement,” said Robert Cordero, the organization’s executive director. Rachael Gazdick, who heads New York Edge, one of the city’s largest providers of after-school and summer camp programs, said her organization wouldn’t be able to continue its virtual classes into the summer if the cuts go through. “We basically have no safety net,” she said, fearing she

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wouldn’t be able to afford to retain staff to manage after-school programming once the next school year starts.

Though several community-based organizations, such as Global Kids, are planning to continue to work with kids throughout the summer in similar remote programs, their reach will be more limited with less money available. This means youth who rely on these city-funded programs may be left with little to do for the next several months.

And that’s a concern for groups that work with kids who are being traumatized by the COVID-19 outbreak. At a time when family members are falling sick and youth are kept physically apart from their friends, children and teenagers already are under stress with fewer forms of social support.

“One of our kids, her mother died of COVID-19,” Gazdick said. “If she didn’t have her dance class every day, she’d have absolutely nothing to do. It’s not just the academic part of this, but the emotional trauma it has taken on kids.”

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COMPREHENSIVE AFTER SCHOOL SYSTEM OF NYC WHAT IT IS: Elementary school after-school programs with academic and recreational activities PROPOSED CUT: $36.5 million

SUMMER YOUTH EMPLOYMENT PROGRAM WHAT IT IS: Employment program for youth and young adults ages 14 to 21 in the public and private sectors PROPOSED CUT: $124 million

BEACON SUMMER PROGRAMMING WHAT IT IS: After-school programs featuring academic help, sports and arts classes PROPOSED CUT: $8.5 million

NEW YORK CITY PARKS SUMMER DAY CAMP PROGRAM WHAT IT IS: Allows children ages 6 to 13 to take part in sports, cultural and educational opportunities PROPOSED CUT: $634,000

CORNERSTONE SUMMER PROGRAMMING WHAT IT IS: After-school programming at New York City Housing Authority community centers PROPOSED CUT: $8.5 million

EDUCATION PROGRAMS, INCLUDING SUMMER IN THE CITY WHAT IT IS: Summer in the City allows students to engage in STEM-related activities, such as visits to museums, parks and other institutions PROPOSED CUT: $49 million

SCHOOL’S OUT NYC SUMMER PROGRAMMING WHAT IT IS: Summer program for middle school students PROPOSED CUT: $5.7 million

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LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 12/17/18. Princ. office of LLC: 75 Broadway, Ste. 230, San Francisco, CA 94111. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC at the princ. office of the LLC. DE addr. of LLC: 251 Little Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of Form. filed with Secy. of State, DE Div. of Corps., John G. Townsend Bldg., 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Notice of Formation of Somerset 2020 LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 01/21/20. Office location: NY County.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The Baker Law Firm PLLC, 1175 York Ave., #15D, NY, NY 10065, Attn: Brett R. Baker, Esq. Purpose: any lawful activities.

Notice of Formation of CLUBSTAR NYC DESIGN, LLC filed with SSNY on November 07, 2019. Office: NY County.

SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 80 Varick St, 7F, NY, NY 10013. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

DANIELLE SROOR MANAGEMENT LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 03/12/2020. Office loc: NY County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: D. Sroor, 110 Wall Street, Apt 1704, NY, NY 10005. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose.

Move it, Baby! LLC Filed 2/13/20 Office: New York Co. SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail to: 120 Riverside Blvd, Apt 16J, New York, NY 10069 Purpose: all lawful

Notice of Qualification of ZAPPOS.COM LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 03/19/20. Office location: NY County.

LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 11/10/09. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to c/o Corporation Service Company, 80 State St., Albany, NY 122072543. DE addr. of LLC: 251 Little Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of Form. filed with DE Secy. of State, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Notice of Formation of PSYK LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 03/11/20.

Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 600 West 138th St., Apt. 63, NY, NY 10031. Purpose: any lawful activities.

Notice of Qualification of RM781 LLC. Authority filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 03/12/20.

Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 02/21/20.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 810 7th Ave., NY, NY 10019. Address to be maintained in DE: Corporation Trust Center, 1209 Orange St, Wilmington, DE 19801.

Arts of Org. filed with the DE Secy. of State, John G. Townsend Bldg., 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any lawful activities.

Notice of Formation of Cow Hill Realty Holdings LLC name amended to: Cowhill Realty Holdings LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 03/10/20.

Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: the Company, c/o Sachs Companies, 155 East 55th St., Ste. 5F, NY, NY 10022. Purpose: any lawful activities.

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Venn Media Holdings LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 3/16/20. Office location: NY County.

LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 3/12/20. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to c/o Lemery Greisler LLC, 60 Railroad Place, Suite 502, Saratoga Springs, NY 12866. DE addr. of LLC: c/o United Corporate Services, Inc., 874 Walker Road, Suite C, Dover, DE 19904. Cert. of Form. filed with Secy. of State of the State of DE, Div. of Corps., P.O. Box 898, Dover, DE 19903.

Purpose: General.

Notice of Qualification of HOURS NEW YORK LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 03/18/20. Office location: NY County.

LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 03/25/19. Princ. office of LLC: 530 7th Ave., M1, NY, NY 10018.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to c/o Corporation Service Company, 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543. DE addr. of LLC: 251 Little Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808.

Cert. of Form. filed with Secy. of State, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901.

Purpose: Clothing.

Roll & Hill Furniture, LLC. App. for Authority filed with the Secretary of State of NY (“SSNY”) on 1/29/2020. LLC formed in DE on 1/29/2020. Office location: Kings County.

SSNY desig. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY mail process to 87 34th Street, Unit 11, Brooklyn, NY 11232. Cert. of Form. on file: DE SOS, Delaware Div. of Corporations, P.O. Box 898, Dover, DE 19903. Purpose: any lawful business.

Notice of Qualification of LIRIO MANAGER LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 03/27/20. Office location: NY County.

LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 10/07/19. Princ. office of LLC: c/o The Hudson Companies Inc., 826 Broadway, NY, NY 10003. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC at the princ. office of the LLC. DE addr. of LLC: 251 Little Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of Form. filed with Secy. of State, 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901.

Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Venn Media Holdings LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 3/16/20. Office location: NY County.

LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 3/12/20. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to c/o Lemery Greisler LLC, 60 Railroad Place, Suite 502, Saratoga Springs, NY 12866. DE addr. of LLC: c/o United Corporate Services, Inc., 874 Walker Road, Suite C, Dover, DE 19904. Cert. of Form. filed with Secy. of State of the State of DE, Div. of Corps., P.O. Box 898, Dover, DE 19903.

Purpose: General.

BKauf, LLC. Filed with the SSNY on 2/14/202.

Office: Kings County.

SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC, United States Corporation Agents, INC. 7014 13th Avenue, Suite 202 Brooklyn, NY 11228.

Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

App. for Auth. (LLC) Solid & Striped LLC. App. for Auth. filed w/ the Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 4/1/20. LLC formed in DE on 6/7/12. Office Location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: c/o The LLC, 529 W. 20th St., #7E, NY, NY 10011, registered agent upon whom process may be served. Purpose: All lawful purposes.

Notice of Formation of Galen Botanicals, LLC filed with SSNY on January 17, 2020. Office: Kings County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 7014 13th Avenue, Suite 202, Brooklyn, NY 11228. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

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Notice of Formation of AR Practice Management Firm, LLC filed with SSNY on March 5, 2020. Office: NY Dutchess County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 59 Hudson Heights Drive, Poughkeepsie, NY 12601.

Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

BKauf, LLC. Filed with the SSNY on 2/14/202.

Office: Kings County.

SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC, United States Corporation Agents, INC. 7014 13th Avenue, Suite 202 Brooklyn, NY 11228.

Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

NOTICE OF FORMATION of limited liability company (LLC). Name: MO WELLNESS FOUNDATION, LLC. Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 04/01/2020. Office location: Bronx County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail copy of process to: MAURICE HURD 3410 DE REIMER AVE APT 7J BRONX, NY 10475. Purpose: any lawful purpose.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT A LICENSE, SERIAL # 1327838 FOR LIQUOR, WINE, & BEER HAS BEEN APPLIED FOR BY THE UNDERSIGNED TO SELL LIQUOR, WINE, & BEER AT RETAIL UNDER THE ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE CONTROL LAW AT 156 COLUMBUS AVE NY, NY 10023 NY COUNTY, FOR ON PREMISE CONSUMPTION.

Notice of Qualification of Epyllion Industries LLC. Authority filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 02/19/20. Office location: NY County.

LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 02/18/20. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o Matthew Ball, 1325 Avenue of the Americas, Ste. 2822, NY, NY 10019. Address to be maintained in DE: 9 E. Loockerman St., Ste. 311, Dover, DE 19901.

Arts of Org. filed with the Secy. of State, John G. Townsend Bldg., 401 Federal St., - Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any lawful activities.

ZNK, LLC Art. of Org filed with the SSNY on 4/17/20.

Office: New York County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, 47 E 30th St., Apt. 5, New York, NY 10016. Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

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NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT A LICENSE, SERIAL # 1327766 FOR LIQUOR, WINE, & BEER HAS BEEN APPLIED FOR BY THE UNDERSIGNED TO SELL LIQUOR, WINE, & BEER AT RETAIL UNDER THE ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE CONTROL LAW AT 1407 NOSTRAND AVE BROOKLYN, NY 11226 KINGS COUNTY, FOR ON PREMISE CONSUMPTION. DWEL U INC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT A LICENSE, SERIAL # 1327932 FOR LIQUOR, WINE, & BEER HAS BEEN APPLIED FOR

BY THE UNDERSIGNED TO SELL LIQUOR, WINE, & BEER AT RETAIL UNDER THE ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE CONTROL LAW AT 167 NASSAU AVE BROOKLYN, NY 11222 KINGS COUNTY, FOR ON PREMISE CONSUMPTION. SAINT ELLIE LLC

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Notice of Qualification of ReVased, LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 01/23/20. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Maryland (MD) on 10/16/18. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to c/o ReVased, LLC, 1829 Reisterstown Road, #425, Baltimore, MD 21208.

Cert. of Form. filed with Director of State of MD Dept of Assessments and Taxation, 301 West Preston Street, Baltimore, MD 21201. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Notice of formation of MikeGeez Fitness Boutique, LLC. Filed with SSNY Richmond County on 1/20/2020. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 4131 Hylan Blvd, SI, NY 10308.

Purpose: Any lawful act or activity.

NOTICE OF FORMATION of YL Partners LLC. Arts of Org filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 1/10/20. Office location: NY County. SSNY designated as agent upon whom process may be served and shall mail a copy of process against LLC to the LLC, 145 East 48th Street, # 29B, New York, NY 10017. Purpose: any lawful act.

PUBLIC NOTICE

PUBLIC NOTICE

AT&T proposes t o modify an existing facility (new tip heights 61.6’) on the building at 680 Monroe St, Brooklyn, NY (20200557).

Interested parties may contact Scott Horn (856-8091202) (1012 Industrial Dr., West Berlin, NJ 08091) with comments regarding potential effects on historic properties.

Cellco Partnership and its controlled affiliates doing business as Verizon Wireless (Verizon Wireless) proposes to collocate wireless communications antennas at five locations. Antennas will be installed at a top height of 98 feet on a 117foot building at the approx. vicinity of 510 West 21st Street, New York, New York County, NY 10011; at a top height of 71 feet on a 75-foot building at the approx. vicinity of 901 Walton Avenue, Bronx, Bronx County, NY 10452; at a top height of 25 feet on a 25-foot building at the approx. vicinity of 229-19 Merrick Boulevard, Queens, Queens County, NY 11413; at a top height of 132 feet on a 149-foot building at the approx. vicinity of 135 5th Avenue, New York, New York County, NY 10010; at a top height of 229 feet on a 223-foot building at the approx. vicinity of 165 W 46th Street, New York, New York County, NY 10036.

Public comments regarding potential effects from this site on historic properties may be submitted within 30 days from the date of this publication to: Trileaf Corp, Morgan Rasmussen, m.rasmussen@trileaf.com, 1395 S. Marietta Pkwy, Building 400, Suite 209, Marietta, GA 30067; 678-653-8673 ext. 657

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT A LICENSE, SERIAL # 1328147 FOR LIQUOR, WINE, & BEER HAS BEEN APPLIED FOR

BY THE UNDERSIGNED TO SELL LIQUOR, WINE, & BEER AT RETAIL UNDER THE ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE CONTROL LAW AT 471 MYRTLE AVE. BROOKLYN, NY 11205 KINGS COUNTY, FOR ON PREMISE CONSUMPTION. MR LEE’S OF MYRTLE AVENUE INC PUBLIC NOTICE AT&T proposes to modify an existing facility (new tip heights 72’) on the building at 393 Lenox Ave, New York, NY (20200535).

Interested parties may contact Scott Horn (856-8091202) (1012 Industrial Dr., West Berlin, NJ 08091) with comments regarding potential effects on historic properties.

PUBLIC NOTICE

Design Lady LLC. Art. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 04/07/2020. Office: Bronx County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail a copy of process to the LLC, 7014 13th avenue suite 202 Brooklyn, NY 11228.

Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

AT&T proposes to modify an existing facility (new tip heights 169.5’) on the building at 239 Park Ave, New York, NY (20200565).

Interested parties may contact Scott Horn (856-8091202) (1012 Industrial Dr., West Berlin, NJ 08091) with comments regarding potential effects on historic properties.

PUBLIC NOTICE

PUBLIC NOTICE

AT&T proposes to modify an existing facility (new tip heights 349’) on the building at 180 Water Street, New York, NY (20200549). Interested parties may contact Scott Horn (856-8091202) (1012 Industrial Dr., West Berlin, NJ 08091) with comments regarding potential effects on historic properties.

AT&T proposes to collocate antennas (tip heights 55’ and 60.3’) on the building at 101 Van Buren Street, Brooklyn, NY (20200441). Interested parties may contact Scott Horn (856-8091202) (1012 Industrial Dr., West Berlin, NJ 08091) with comments regarding potential effects on historic properties.

THE ANNUAL RETURN OF THE BAUDOIN FAMILY FOUNDATION, INC for the year ended December 31, 2019 is available at its principal office located at 460 Park Avenue, New York, NY 10022 for inspection during regular business hours by any citizen who requests it within 180 days hereof.

Principal Manager of the Foundation is PATRICIA BAUDOIN. Notice of Formation of Rise N’ Shine Commercial Cleaning, LLC filed with SSNY on April 20, 2020. Office: Westchester County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served: Jordane Johnson. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC: 160 Concord Avenue, White Plains, NY 10606.

Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

PUBLIC NOTICE AT&T proposes to collocate antennas (tip heights 139.1’ & 145.1’) on the building at 310 East 55th Street, New York, NY (20200488). Interested parties may contact Scott Horn (856-8091202) (1012 Industrial Dr., West Berlin, NJ 08091) with comments regarding potential effects on historic properties.

PUBLIC NOTICE AT&T proposes to collocate antennas (tip heights 131’ & 145’) on the building at 888 Main Street, New York, NY (20200505).

Interested parties may contact Scott Horn (856-8091202) (1012 Industrial Dr., West Berlin, NJ 08091) with comments regarding potential effects on historic properties.

DCJB, LLC . Art. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 5/4/2020. Office: Richmond County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, 54 West Terrace Staten Island, NY 10312. Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

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DERMOT SHEA When you’re defending cops punching unarmed civilians in the head, you’ve really lost the PR battle. Plus, the police officers union is demanding that cops get “out of the social distancing enforcement business,” and Brooklyn’s top prosecutor revealed that minorities made up 39 out of 40 social distancing arrests.

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Winning a Pulitzer Prize is an impressive feat for any journalist. But winning your second at just 31 years old? Brian Rosenthal, an investigative reporter on The New York Times’ Metro desk, was awarded the 2020 prize for his work exposing predatory lending practices in New York’s taxi industry.

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Now that Yang and Bernie delegates got the presidential primary back on, you get to risk your life for a purely symbolic vote.

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