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First Day of School Is OMNY Day in New York
The schoolchildren who travel by subway and bus will be using OMNY student cards for the first time.
Good morning. It’s Thursday, the first day in class for students in public schools in New York City. We’ll also look at how the judge in Donald Trump’s hush-money case has tried to treat a landmark proceeding no differently from any other.
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The first test on the first day of the fall semester for public school students in New York City today will not involve reading comprehension or math skills.
It will be the test of getting there: Public school students will be carrying OMNY transit cards for the first time.
Some of those students will go to one of 24 brand-new schools, the most opening at once in 21 years.
The OMNY cards are replacing MetroCards that have been issued to public school students across the city since 1997, a decade before most of this year’s high school seniors were born.
