New York City is renewing efforts to get more public school children vaccinated against COVID, with new pop-up clinics at schools where rates are low, and an information blitz consisting of robocalls to parents, fliers sent home in backpacks, and town halls with public health officials. The push, announced Thursday, comes as child vaccination uptake […]
Preschool and daycare workers, as well as after-school staff, will be required to get vaccinated, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced Thursday. The new mandate includes 24,000 employees initially left out of the city’s requirement that all education department staff need to be vaccinated. Just like education department staff, preschool, day care, and after-school workers who […]
New York City will agree to keep teachers with vaccine exemptions on the job after their union filed a labor complaint over the issue, Mayor Bill de Blasio said Wednesday. But negotiations continue over what will happen to teachers who aren’t vaccinated and don’t have a religious or medical exemption. There are just days to […]
