Students at Manhattan’s Stuyvesant High School and Brooklyn Technical High School staged a walkout on Tuesday morning to demand online learning options and safer classrooms as COVID-19 cases continue to spread across the city.
“[The] NYCDOE cited a district-wide absentee rate of about 55.5% on Friday, Jan. 7.” said Movement of Rank and Educators, United Federation of Teachers (MORE-UFT), a teacher’s caucus in a statement Jan. 10. Prior to the pandemic, normal daily attendance rates were about 91%.