The 2018/19 school year began on September 5 in New York City after ten weeks of vacation. More than a million New York children are attending a public school in the city this year, 2017 it was exactly 1,135,334 students. The New York school system is the largest school system in the United States and comprises 1,843 schools, 227 of which are charter schools, which are publicly funded schools under private management.
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