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2026-27 NYC school calendar proves the system doesn’t care about learning

Parents are rightly furious over the city public-school calendar for the school year starting this fall — but the insanely late start date of Sept. 10 is the least of it: This is yet another blaring signal that the adults running New York’s public-school system don’t much care if the kids learn.

Yes, lots of teachers and many school leaders do care, but they have to fight the system, including the United Federation of Teachers, to do right by students.

After the Department of Education released the calendar Tuesday, initial parent anger focused on the late start and even later finish (June 28!) as well as long breaks and erratic closures that complicate child-care arrangements.

For the late start, blame the UFT contract, which maximizes its members’ beach time by mandating that classes resume on the Thursday after Labor Day (Sept. 7 this year), with teachers getting the Tuesday and Wednesday to prepare their classrooms for the year.

Note that Mayor Mike Bloomberg’ schools........

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