Lunar New Year New York Schools 2025 Lunar. The rochester city school district has reversed course on how it will mark the lunar new year holiday in two weeks. The new york state education department says a law signed in september 2023 prohibits school districts from holding sessions on the lunar new year.

There will be no school on wednesday, january 29, 2025, as lunar new year has been declared a new york state public holiday. The holiday fell on a weekend in 2024, so schools weren’t in session, making 2025 the first year that schools close statewide for the occasion.