70% of Staten Island students skipped school after Mamdani rejected remote learning

Source: New York Post

Staten Island kids learned next to nothing on Tuesday — with roughly 70% of borough students taking off the day after one of the biggest blizzards in NYC history. Staten Island was slammed hardest of the five boroughs with some neighborhoods seeing nearly 30 inches of snow, causing public-school absentee rates there to skyrocket to a jaw-dropping 69. 8% — more than double the same-day citywide average of 36.