{"id":434,"date":"2020-03-24T13:48:15","date_gmt":"2020-03-24T13:48:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brownsvillenews.org\/principal-at-nyc-school-in-brownsville-brooklyn-dies-from-coronavirus-complications\/"},"modified":"2020-03-24T13:48:15","modified_gmt":"2020-03-24T13:48:15","slug":"principal-at-nyc-school-in-brownsville-brooklyn-dies-from-coronavirus-complications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brownsvillenews.org\/?p=434","title":{"rendered":"Principal at NYC School in Brownsville, Brooklyn Dies From Coronavirus Complications"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The principal of <strong>Brooklyn Democracy Academy<\/strong> in Brownsville, has died due to complications from the coronavirus. This is the first known death of a public school staff member as a result of the coronavirus.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is with profound sadness and overwhelming grief that we announce the passing of our sister, CSA member <strong>Dezann Romain<\/strong>, Principal of Brooklyn Democracy Academy, due to complications from Coronavirus,\u201d the Council of Schools Supervisors and Administrators wrote in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is painful for all of us, and I extend my deepest condolences to the Brooklyn Democracy Academy community, and the family of Principal Romain,&#8221; <strong>Schools Chancellor Richard Carranza said<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Brooklyn Democracy Academy is located at 985 Rockaway Avenue, in Brownsville Brooklyn. The building also houses Leadership Prep Charter School and Kappa V (Knowledge and Power Prep Academy).<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/nyceducationnews.com\/breaking-news\/\">Subscribe to NYC Education News<\/a> <\/strong>for updates on New York City schools.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The principal of Brooklyn Democracy Academy in Brownsville, has died due to complications from the coronavirus. This is the first known death of a public school staff member as a result of the coronavirus. \u201cIt is with profound sadness and overwhelming grief that we announce the passing of our sister, CSA member Dezann Romain, Principal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":435,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","category-health"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brownsvillenews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brownsvillenews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brownsvillenews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brownsvillenews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brownsvillenews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brownsvillenews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brownsvillenews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brownsvillenews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brownsvillenews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brownsvillenews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}