{"id":40646,"date":"2021-10-01T11:12:34","date_gmt":"2021-10-01T18:12:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=40646"},"modified":"2021-10-01T17:12:55","modified_gmt":"2021-10-02T00:12:55","slug":"supreme-court-denies-new-york-city-teachers-request-to-block-vaccine-mandates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=40646","title":{"rendered":"SUPREME COURT DENIES NEW YORK CITY TEACHERS&#8217; REQUEST TO BLOCK VACCINE MANDATES"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New York City&#8217;s vaccine mandate for teachers and school staff takes effect on Monday, and the latest effort to stop it from happening has failed.<\/p>\n<p>The Supreme Court on Friday rejected a request from a group of New York City public school teachers to block the city&#8217;s coronavirus vaccine mandate.<\/p>\n<p>The teachers, who refuse to receive a COVID-19 inoculation, filed their request Thursday to Justice\u00a0Sonia Sotomayor, who handles emergency matters arising from New York, after losing in the lower courts.<\/p>\n<p>Sotomayor denied their request unilaterally and without comment.<\/p>\n<p>New York City Mayor\u00a0Bill de Blasio\u00a0(D) on Friday\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/iznzptgkcyywrtrywbmccwzzcgwqygyffdcktnqyvgyznd_skvbmmvrvtbkvvbrspbj.html?a=&amp;b=42914\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/iznzptgkcyywrtrywbmccwzzcgwqygyffdcktnqyvgyznd_skvbmmvrvtbkvvbrspbj.html?a%3D%26b%3D42914&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1633214489878000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGB1aDe2idRrQtbaJBpYChzkq0V_Q\">said<\/a>\u00a090 percent of all Department of Education staff are at least partially vaccinated, including 93 percent of teachers and 98 percent of principals.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There&#8217;s so much noise when you put a mandate forward &#8230; The bottom line is when the dust settled a huge number of people went out and got vaccinated,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York City&#8217;s vaccine mandate for&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40646"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40647,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40646\/revisions\/40647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}