{"id":14627,"date":"2026-03-30T17:14:46","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T21:14:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/advocatesforchildren.org\/?post_type=article&#038;p=14627"},"modified":"2026-03-31T09:31:00","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T13:31:00","slug":"opinion-mamdani-needs-to-give-make-up-services-to-students-left-behind-during-the-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/advocatesforchildren.org\/ht\/articles\/opinion-mamdani-needs-to-give-make-up-services-to-students-left-behind-during-the-pandemic\/","title":{"rendered":"Opinion: Mamdani needs to give make-up services to students left behind during the pandemic"},"template":"","class_list":["post-14627","article","type-article","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","article_type-afc-in-the-news","topic_tax-students-with-disabilities"],"acf":{"component_standard_hero":{"":null,"excerpt":"","short_description":"","button":{"":null,"link_type":"page","page":{"title":"Li atik la","url":"https:\/\/www.cityandstateny.com\/opinion\/2026\/03\/opinion-mamdani-needs-give-make-services-students-left-behind-during-pandemic\/412491\/?oref=csny-category-lander-top-story","target":"_blank"},"file":null,"title":""},"image":14628,"disable_share_icons":false},"page_layout":[{"acf_fc_layout":"layout_wysiwyg","_acfe_flexible_toggle":null,"component_wysiwyg":{"content":"<strong>City and State <\/strong>| This month marks six years since our city shut down in the face of a growing pandemic and schools pivoted overnight to remote learning. 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But for many students with disabilities, that pivot also meant losing access to the services and supports they rely on to learn \u2013 losses whose impacts are still being felt today.\r\n\r\nAt Advocates for Children of New York, each year we hear from and provide legal services to hundreds of families struggling to navigate the nation\u2019s largest school system, in New York City.","":null,"settings":""}}],"relationships":{"":null,"article_type":[83],"topics":[28],"misc_topics":false},"misc":{"search_results":{"":null,"excerpt":"","featured_image":14628}}},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Opinion: Mamdani needs to give make-up services to students left behind during the pandemic - Advocates for Children of New York<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/advocatesforchildren.org\/ht\/articles\/opinion-mamdani-needs-to-give-make-up-services-to-students-left-behind-during-the-pandemic\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"ht_HT\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Opinion: Mamdani needs to give make-up services to students left behind during the pandemic - 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