NEW YORK – Staten Island parents and their representative on the New York City Council on Friday filed a preliminary injunction in an effort to reopen the city’s public schools closed this week by Mayor Bill de Blasio.
Councilman Joseph Borelli said Saturday that city leadership failed to provide adequate education through remote learning, making the city’s decision to stop in-person learning “irresponsible and unacceptable.”
“Mayor de Blasio and Chancellor Carranza have continued to fail our children over and over again,” Borelli said in a news release Saturday announcing the lawsuit. “Although they had 6 months to prepare for this year, they did not and our children are forced to pay the price.”