Public school students in New York City on Oct. 11 will be celebrating Italian Heritage Day and Indigenous People’s Day instead of Columbus Day, and Juneteenth will become a school holiday for the first time, the city’s education official announced Tuesday.
In the 2021–2022 school year calendar released Tuesday afternoon, Oct. 11 was originally labelled as Indigenous Peoples’ Day. However, the Department of Education (DOE) sent out an update later, clarifying that the Columbus Day holiday will actually be renamed “Italian Heritage Day/Indigenous People’s Day.”
