All of New Jersey’s schools — public and private, and including colleges — will close their doors to students Wednesday as the coronavirus continues to spread in the state, Gov. Phil Murphy announced today, reports Matt Arco | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com.
“All schools in New Jersey, public, private, parochial, from pre-K through grade 12, and colleges and universities, will close effective Wednesday March 18th,” Murphy said via tweet.
The governor said they will stay closed “until such time as deemed by health officials to be safe for classes to resume.”
He said one of the reasons for the delay was “the only hot meal, the only good meal (some students) get a day, are from a school,” so officials wanted to make sure a plan was in place first to get those students meals.
The shutdown will affect about 1.4 million public school students and more than 115,000 teachers, while closing more than 2,500 schools across the state.
{Matzav.com}
For the record:
Despite the strong statement from the Passaic Rabbonim including the Rosh Yeshiva, shlita, forbidding “boot-leg” minyonim, at least 6 home and parking-lot minyonim were assembled for Shacharis this morning in Passaic.
I suppose the Passaic “masmidim” know better than the Rosh Yeshiva and the Mora d’Atras.
You were quiet when your elected officials legalized toaiva in your State. Now suddenly you’re speaking out when Yidden daven together?! You are a very dangerous hypocrite.
Everyone wonders how Korach got ehrliche yidden to rebel against Moshe Rabbeinu. When you see things like this happening before your eyes, you say, “Takeh! Now I chap!”
How about college in ny state?