Bloomberg: Schools Won't Close For Muslim Holidays

WCBS
June 30, 2009

http://www.islamist-watch.org/1839/bloomberg-schools-wont-close-for-muslim-holidays

Excerpt:

Mayor Michael Bloomberg says New York City's schools can't close for Muslim holidays.

The City Council is considering a nonbinding resolution on Tuesday asking the Education Department to observe Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha.

The city has the nation's largest school system. A 2008 study by Columbia University's Teachers College estimates at least 10 percent of its 1.1 million students are Muslim.

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