SUPREME COURT DENIES NEW YORK CITY TEACHERS’ REQUEST TO BLOCK VACCINE MANDATES
New York City’s vaccine mandate for teachers and school staff takes effect on Monday, and the latest effort to stop it from happening has failed.
The Supreme Court on Friday rejected a request from a group of New York City public school teachers to block the city’s coronavirus vaccine mandate.
The teachers, who refuse to receive a COVID-19 inoculation, filed their request Thursday to Justice Sonia Sotomayor, who handles emergency matters arising from New York, after losing in the lower courts.
Sotomayor denied their request unilaterally and without comment.
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio (D) on Friday said 90 percent of all Department of Education staff are at least partially vaccinated, including 93 percent of teachers and 98 percent of principals.
“There’s so much noise when you put a mandate forward … The bottom line is when the dust settled a huge number of people went out and got vaccinated,” he said.
