Education officials say there was a communication breakdown when an Upper West Side high school went on lockdown Thursday.
NEW YORK — New York City Department of Education officials say they're investigating after there was a communication breakdown when a city high school went on lockdown Thursday.Schools Chancellor David Banks addressed the incident at his first press conference of the school year Friday.
The parent said she learned what was happening through a chat with other parents, and any information those parents had obtained had come from their kids.'Any parent who had to go through that and was not being communicated with in real time, that is unacceptable to me as the chancellor and for me personally as a parent,' Banks said.P.S. 9 is located across the street from Brandeis and went into 'shelter in' protocol given the threat across the street.
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