{"id":1878,"date":"2020-03-15T22:02:50","date_gmt":"2020-03-15T22:02:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/?p=1878"},"modified":"2020-03-20T14:48:29","modified_gmt":"2020-03-20T14:48:29","slug":"speaker-corey-johnson-statement-on-closures-of-new-york-city-public-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/2020\/03\/15\/1878\/","title":{"rendered":"Speaker Johnson Statement on Closures of New York City Public Schools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>NEW YORK<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2013 &#8220;I applaud Gov. Cuomo and Mayor de Blasio for making the responsible decision to close our schools. We must move quickly to mitigate the impact of coronavirus\/COVID-19. Bold measures like school closures are difficult but critical to keep our city safe.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Although necessary, school&nbsp;closures will bring new challenges. All of those challenges &#8211; from prioritizing child care relief for essential medical and hospital staff to ensuring services for vulnerable students who rely on schools for necessities like meals and medicine &#8211; must be swiftly addressed as we take this step.&nbsp;We owe it to all of our students to get this right. The City Council stands ready and willing to help in any way we can.<\/p>\n<p>This is a difficult time for our city. Let&#8217;s look out for one another during this crisis.&nbsp;The tough decisions we make now will help us weather this crisis in the long run.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">###<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>NEW YORK<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2013 &#8220;I applaud Gov. Cuomo and Mayor de Blasio for making the responsible decision to close our schools. We must move quickly to mitigate the impact of coronavirus\/COVID-19. Bold measures like school closures are difficult but critical to keep our city safe.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Although necessary, school&nbsp;closures will bring new challenges. All of those challenges &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong><small><a href=\"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/2020\/03\/15\/1878\/\">READ MORE<\/a><\/small><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":157,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-covid19"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/157"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1878\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}