snow days

A new bill in New Jersey might bring an end to the much-beloved snow days for schoolchildren. NBC New York’s Brian Thompson reports.

After doing away with snow days, NYC public schools made another change that has upset some people: Columbus Day will now be called Italian heritage Day as well as Indigenous People’s Day. NBC New York’s John Chandler reports.

From erasing snow days, to renaming Columbus Day, the city’s Department of Education calendar changes have managed to upset some people, including the city and state’s top officials, who are from Italian-American families. Columbus Day and snow days will never be the same in city schools. Snow days will turn into remote school days. Parents first noticed the change...

Attention school kids of New York City – you can put all the spoons you want under your pillow, wear your pajamas inside out, flush ice cubes down the toilet, but you’re not getting any more snow days off from school. The city Department of Education said Tuesday that it will take a page from the pandemic playbook for the…

25 states have introduced bills calling for more personal finance education in schools. In some districts, even kindergarteners are learning early lessons about the basics of saving, spending and debt. Sharon Epperson, senior CNBC personal finance correspondent, talks with LX News about students across the country who called for more real-life financial guidance.

Even before the first flakes fell, New York City’s first big snowfall of the season was doomed to be a gloomy disappointment for more than a million of its schoolchildren, as Mayor Bill de Blasio made it clear students would have to log in an work as usual

A powerful nor’easter has dropped snow and ice throughout the northeast, leaving 70 million dealing with extreme cold and slippery conditions.

As if the coronavirus pandemic hasn’t already taken so much of people’s livelihoods, it is taking away snow days from New York City students too. As the biggest snowstorm in years approached the five boroughs Wednesday, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced New York City school buildings would be closed to in-person learning on Thursday. Remote learning will continue for...

Thanks, coronavirus.