de Blasio and Mark-Viverito push for Lunar New Year school holiday
BY HELEN KLEIN AND HEATHER J. CHIN
City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito has renewed a call to make the start of the Lunar New Year a school holiday.
At a Queens press conference held on Friday, January 24, Mark-Viverito was joined by colleagues in government to push for the addition to the schools calendar, noting “Students shouldn’t feel like they have to choose between celebrating their heritage and missing a day of school.”