Federal judge deals blow to vaccine mandate for New York City teachers
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Students on the first classes at a public school in the Bronx borough in New York, on Monday, Sept. 13, 2021.
Getty Images New York City Schools were temporarily prevented from applying a mandate to its teachers and workers for vaccines by a federal appeals court judge. This happened just days before the mandate was due to go into effect.| Bloomberg | Getty Images
New York City schools have been temporarily blocked from enforcing a vaccine mandate for its teachers and other workers by a federal appeals judge just days before it was to take effect.
Monday was the scheduled date for the worker mandate to be in effect at America’s biggest school system. A judge from the U.S. Second Circuit Court of Appeals ruled against Monday’s plan. Circuit Court of Appeals issued a temporary injunction, and referred this case to a 3-judge panel.
Danielle Filson, spokesperson for the Department of Education said that officials were seeking an expedited resolution from the circuit court.
Filson stated in an email that she was confident the vaccine mandate would be maintained once all facts are presented. “This is because it’s the protection students and employees deserve.”
More than 82% of employees in the department have been vaccinated, she said.
While school workers are now all vaccinated for the most part, New York City teachers’ unions warned that it could mean that there is still a shortage of teachers in the city’s 1 million student school system.
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio has refused calls for delay to the mandate.
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