Mayor Bill De Blasio Outlines Plan To Close COVID Achievement Gap As Parents Worry Students Are Falling Behind
A new six-point framework, still short of an actual plan, is aimed at helping students catch up.
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A new six-point framework, still short of an actual plan, is aimed at helping students catch up.
Early on in the pandemic, it looked like children might escape COVID-19 relatively unscathed, but now we've learned that kids can get infected with the coronavirus, spread the virus even without symptoms and, in more than a few cases, get seriously ill and even die.
With home life and school upended by the coronavirus pandemic, kids' letters to Santa Claus look a little different this year.
The Food and Drug Administration is expected to approve the Pfizer vaccine as soon as Thursday.
The governor says Staten Island has gone from having the lowest COVID-19 death rate in New York City to having the highest, further strengthening his threat of even more restaurant restrictions.
How bad could things get in New Jersey? Anyway you cut it, COVID-19 cases will continue to surge through the next few months.
Suffolk reported more than 1,100 new cases Tuesday, and Nassau has a test positivity rate of 5.8% -- the highest number in months.
Health officials say the goal of the coronavirus vaccine is to create herd immunity. That means enough people have to take it. But many are still skeptical.
With infection rates continuing to soar in New York, Gov. Andrew Cuomo is defending the need to put new restrictions on indoor dining. This, as restaurant officials say they want to see the data.
The warning came after two health care workers who got the vaccine on Tuesday suffered adverse reactions.
The proposed $908 billion coronavirus relief package is gaining traction in Congress. But will it be enough, and will it come in time?
Middle and high schools across the city remain closed, as COVID infection rates remain on the rise.
The COVID-19 vaccine will be available to millions of Americans this month, but who qualifies depends on certain factors.
If New York City's hospitalization rate doesn't come down, indoor dining will be forced to shut down.
In the U.K., the much-anticipated vaccine program got underway. Here in the U.S., the FDA said there are more positive findings from the vaccine ahead of its final recommendations.
Officials across the Tri-State Area released another round of coronavirus pandemic statistics on Tuesday, and the situation doesn't appear to be getting any better.
It's a holiday unlike any other. Millions of Americans struggling financially are worrying about their inability to give traditional tips to deserving service workers that they depend on.
As a way to bridge the widening education gap, organizers have paired up 120 students with volunteer tutors for free weekly homework support.
Even when the COVID-19 vaccine is available to the general public, that doesn't mean everyone will be rushing to get it. But a new campaign is trying to change that.
To help those who must rideshare, scientists at the University of Massachusetts studied airflow inside vehicles using a smoke visualization.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo says if hospitalizations keep climbing, indoor dining will be shut down in New York City and limited to 25% capacity elsewhere in the state.
U.K. health authorities began rolling out the first doses of a widely tested and independently reviewed COVID-19 vaccine on Tuesday.
A festival in Mexico is being blamed for spreading coronavirus cases in New York City.
After New Jersey set a record for coronavirus cases over the weekend, officials say there's now a major problem with contact tracing.
Gov. Cuomo said every region in the state has five days to stabilize its hospitalization rate. If New York City cannot, restaurants would have to suspend indoor dining indefinitely.
