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New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D) announced during a press conference on Thursday that the festival of Diwali, celebrated by Hindus, Jains, Sikhs and Buddhists, will become a public school ...
New York City will add the festival of Diwali to the list of public school holidays in recognition of the growth of the city's South Asian and Indo-Caribbean communities, Mayor Eric Adams ...
Mayor Adams announced plans Thursday to make Diwali, the Hindu festival of lights, an official New York City school holiday for the next academic year. The holiday, which is also celebrated by ...
All New York State holidays and most national school holidays; January 21 – February 20 (floating on full moon date) – Lunar New Year; February – Mid-Winter Recess (includes Lincoln's Birthday and Washington's Birthday) March 20 – April 23 (floating Friday using Computus) – Good Friday; April – Spring Recess
Christmas or Winter Break – Varies in length per school; usually starts on the third Saturday in December and ends a day or two after New Year's Day (sometimes the first Monday after New Year's Day), unless New Year's Day falls on a Sunday in which case the first Monday (January 2) is the official holiday and schools may not begin until ...
In the early 1860s, the New York State Legislature authorized Anniversary Day as a school holiday in Brooklyn, although banks remained open. Anniversary Day was first celebrated on May 28, 1861, on the 32nd anniversary of the founding of the Sunday School Union, a powerful Protestant organization.
The holiday, which is also celebrated by Sikhs, Jains and some Buddhists, would replace Anniversary Day, or what was known for many years as Brooklyn-Queens Day, as a day off for city public ...
In 2023 the school district contemplated the inclusion of Islamic holidays in its academic calendar. The initiative was to recognize Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha as official school holidays. A petition advocating for this change received over 200 signatures from the Monroe-Woodbury Islamic Center, and was presented to the district.