Mayor Eric Adams and Schools Chancellor Melissa Aviles-Ramos celebrated the return of nearly one million public school students and staff on Thursday morning by taking part in a ribbon-cutting at the new Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) Early College Prep High School in Jamaica , the first-of-its-kind for New York City Public Schools.

The new school, located at 88-15 182nd St., brings an innovative, tuition-free, early college high school experience to students, where they can earn up to 64 college credits for an associate degree in Liberal Arts from Delaware State University, an HBCU.

The Sept. 4 ribbon-cutting event welcomed the first cohort of students with performances and words of encouragement while marking the beginning of a transformative school year, which

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