Category: Education

I get it. Things have been overwhelming. We’ve got ongoing election-related news: “President Donald Trump appeared on Sunday to acknowledge losing the U.S. election but then backtracked and said he concedes “nothing,” while President-elect Joe Biden focused on tackling the coronavirus pandemic and set meetings with pharmaceutical companies developing vaccines.” (https://www.reuters.com/article/usa-election/trump-still-refusing-to-concede-to-biden-inflaming-supporters-and-delaying-transition-idUSKBN27T0IQ) and “Zuckerberg was asked…

So in light of New York City’s new “covid zone’s” micro-cluster approach to pandemic management, I need to re-write the Agile Learning Center’s plan for operations this year. I published the plan in July, knowing that parents would feel better with *something* concrete heading into the school year rather than having plans unknown and changing…

Since my last DOH update — an email about the introduction of “Zones” and their implications for NYC schools like the Agile Learning Center — I’d been watching the news for updates on transparency about what criteria move an area into or out of a zone designation. I’d also been keeping an eye on general…

Last Tuesday, October 6th, I wrote about the city’s early experiments with targeting zip codes for covid-restrictions was going over in relation to the school I run. On October 8th, borough president Gale Brewer’s newsletter noted (again) an increase in cases then added a note that experts are advising using seven-day averages, which that day…

After a [predicted] spike in covid cases in NYC starting Sept. 25-27 and by some accounts putting us back to March 13th numbers over the past weekend, city government appears to be testing an approach of allowing or restricting hot spot area according to zip code. On one hand, families I work with in East…