New York state schools will close in celebration of Lunar New Year for the first time “Recognizing Lunar New Year as a statewide holiday is sending a message to Asian Americans ... that we belong here,” one lawmaker said. Jan. 15, 2025, 2:32 PM CST By Kimmy Yam For students across New York, the upcoming Year of the Snake will start off with a bit more of a bang. Public schools across the state will be celebrating the Lunar New Year on Jan. 29 as an official holiday for the first time. This also makes New York the first state to mandate school closures for the occasion. Last year, the state holiday’s inception fell on a Saturday, and students weren’t given an additional day off. New York Assemblymember Grace Lee, who led efforts to pass a bill that resulted in the change, told NBC News that the holiday is an opportunity for students of all backgrounds to reflect and learn about Asian traditions. “Recognizing Lunar New Year as a statewide holiday is sending a message to Asian Americans, and to all New Yorkers, that Asian Americans are New Yorkers, and that we belong here,” Lee, who’s also chair of the Assembly’s Asian Pacific American Task Force, said. “I think it’s also a recognition for the many contributions that Asian Americans have made to New York’s history in the nearly 200 years since we’ve been here.” Gov. Kathy Hochul signed legislation in September 2023 putting the mandate into effect. The Lunar New Year — which includes Chinese New Year, Seollal in Korea, Tet in Vietnam and more — begins at the end of the month and kicks off more than two weeks of festivities. Celebrated by Chinese diasporas and other East Asian populations as well as the Vietnamese, the occasion is also largely considered the most important holiday of the year for these cultures.
风轻雨 发表于 2025-01-15 22:13 New York state schools will close in celebration of Lunar New Year for the first time “Recognizing Lunar New Year as a statewide holiday is sending a message to Asian Americans ... that we belong here,” one lawmaker said. Jan. 15, 2025, 2:32 PM CST By Kimmy Yam For students across New York, the upcoming Year of the Snake will start off with a bit more of a bang. Public schools across the state will be celebrating the Lunar New Year on Jan. 29 as an official holiday for the first time. This also makes New York the first state to mandate school closures for the occasion. Last year, the state holiday’s inception fell on a Saturday, and students weren’t given an additional day off. New York Assemblymember Grace Lee, who led efforts to pass a bill that resulted in the change, told NBC News that the holiday is an opportunity for students of all backgrounds to reflect and learn about Asian traditions. “Recognizing Lunar New Year as a statewide holiday is sending a message to Asian Americans, and to all New Yorkers, that Asian Americans are New Yorkers, and that we belong here,” Lee, who’s also chair of the Assembly’s Asian Pacific American Task Force, said. “I think it’s also a recognition for the many contributions that Asian Americans have made to New York’s history in the nearly 200 years since we’ve been here.” Gov. Kathy Hochul signed legislation in September 2023 putting the mandate into effect. The Lunar New Year — which includes Chinese New Year, Seollal in Korea, Tet in Vietnam and more — begins at the end of the month and kicks off more than two weeks of festivities. Celebrated by Chinese diasporas and other East Asian populations as well as the Vietnamese, the occasion is also largely considered the most important holiday of the year for these cultures.
“Recognizing Lunar New Year as a statewide holiday is sending a message to Asian Americans ... that we belong here,” one lawmaker said.
Jan. 15, 2025, 2:32 PM CST
By Kimmy Yam For students across New York, the upcoming Year of the Snake will start off with a bit more of a bang. Public schools across the state will be celebrating the Lunar New Year on Jan. 29 as an official holiday for the first time. This also makes New York the first state to mandate school closures for the occasion. Last year, the state holiday’s inception fell on a Saturday, and students weren’t given an additional day off. New York Assemblymember Grace Lee, who led efforts to pass a bill that resulted in the change, told NBC News that the holiday is an opportunity for students of all backgrounds to reflect and learn about Asian traditions. “Recognizing Lunar New Year as a statewide holiday is sending a message to Asian Americans, and to all New Yorkers, that Asian Americans are New Yorkers, and that we belong here,” Lee, who’s also chair of the Assembly’s Asian Pacific American Task Force, said. “I think it’s also a recognition for the many contributions that Asian Americans have made to New York’s history in the nearly 200 years since we’ve been here.” Gov. Kathy Hochul signed legislation in September 2023 putting the mandate into effect. The Lunar New Year — which includes Chinese New Year, Seollal in Korea, Tet in Vietnam and more — begins at the end of the month and kicks off more than two weeks of festivities. Celebrated by Chinese diasporas and other East Asian populations as well as the Vietnamese, the occasion is also largely considered the most important holiday of the year for these cultures.
修改了一下，是全州的公立学校都放假。这是美国第一次。
你说的每年放假是NYC吧。这一次是NY State.
先从英伟达，AMD开始春节放假
恩，听懂了，中国春节你都不舍得请一天假，陪家人庆祝！啥都不如钱重要。
自己给自己放假！全体华人团结起来，春节请一天假，不信美国人意识不到
说不定慢慢能得三天假。
不错 刚看了一下， 封神II 在 AMC 也是 1/29 上映
封神2是国语还是英文片？
加州都没做到。。
不是所有学区都放假吧。 不记得去年放过假
我们学区以前尽在犹太人节日放假，近几年一到春节大家就给娃请假，加上给教委交提议，今年终于把大年初一给安排上了。得自己争取啊
中文吗？那带娃看非常合适。
其实去年是立法后第一次，不过去年春节刚好碰上周末，就没有额外补假，今年是个周三。
英文片，中文字幕。