NEW YORK — Diwali is the newest day off from the NYC public schools, but education officials will have to make adjustments to accommodate another holiday in an already packed school calendar.
Dibya Talukder, who spoke at a press conference Monday at City Hall to celebrate the passage of a state bill making Diwali a holiday, said she could not take off Diwali when she was a student in Queens.
“If I did take off, I would miss class and I would fall behind in my school work,” said Talukder, now a sophomore at Cornell University.
