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Blame game: Mayor, schools chancellor point fingers at IBM for remote learning snafu – but critics point back at City Hall

By Ethan Stark-Miller Posted on February 13, 2024

Mayor Eric Adams and Public Schools Chancellor David Banks blamed Tuesday’s major meltdown of the Education Department’s remote learning system during a snowstorm squarely on IBM — one of the vendors integral to running the service.

Even so, some critics say the city should have been more prepared for the possibility of significant technical issues with remote school, which has not been used on a system-wide scale since the days of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Blame game: Mayor, schools chancellor point fingers at IBM for remote learning snafu – but critics point back at City Hall

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