New York City public schools are remote Tuesday due to a winter storm that is expected to dump up to 8 inches of snow on the five boroughs.
The city had for all intents and purposes "done away" with snow days after the COVID-19 pandemic forced more innovative and technology-dependent learning.
However, the city hadn't moved fully remote for a snow day until now. Tuesday's remote instruction is a sudden test of asynchronous learning for the nation's largest public school district. And it started with some issues.
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