For the first time, public schools across New York will be celebrating Lunar New Year on January 29th as an official holiday. This makes New York the first state to mandate school closures for the occasion.
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.
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.
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