All city public school students will get free passes to visit the Museum of Jewish Heritage, while teens from three Brooklyn districts with large Jewish populations will tour the museum on field trips, officials announced Wednesday.
The partnership allows any city public school student to show up to the Battery Park museum with a student ID or report card and claim four free passes. Eighth and 10th graders from Williamsburg, Crown Heights, and Borough Park will visit the museum, which contains an extensive exhibit on the Holocaust, with their schools.
The move is part of the city’s effort to boost anti-bias education in the wake of a recent spate of anti-Semitic attacks.
“We know what the result is when we don’t have this exposure,” schools Chancellor Richard Carranza said Wednesday. “We’re standing in a museum that’s a testament to it.”
Officials also began rolling out new curriculum on bias and anti-Semitism, and will bring the resources citywide starting next school year.
