National School Walkouts in NYC: What You Need To Know

NEW YORK, NY — Students at dozens of New York City schools will walk out of class at 10 a.m. Wednesday as part of a nationwide protest demanding stronger gun control laws after last month's school shooting in Parkland, Florida.

The walkouts will happen a month to the day after Nikolas Cruz shot and killed 17 people with an assault rifle at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. Students and other activists have launched a movement pushing for gun reform since the massacre.

Public, private and charter schools, along with some colleges and universities, are participating. Walkouts are scheduled to last 17 minutes in memory of the Parkland shooting's 17 victims. Elected officials, including Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer and Queens Borough President Melinda Katz, will join some of the protests.

Mayor Bill de Blasio has encouraged students to participate in the walkouts. Schools will have lesson plans leading up to the events so students with "all different views" can discuss the issue, the mayor said at a town hall event last week.

Students could face consequences if they don't show up to school until the walkout or leave when it's over, de Blasio said, but the city will respect those who leave class for the predetermined time and then return.

"In that instance it’s going to be understood that people were making a choice of conscience, and it’s going to be talked about, and it’s going to be respected," de Blasio said last week.

Here are the New York City schools with official walkouts planned. Click on the link to see details for each event.

Manhattan

1. The City College of New York Walkout
2. Parents of PS 125 and Allies
3. Future Leaders Institute Walk Out
4. Columbia University Senior Nonprofits Leaders Program #ENOUGH Walk Out
5. Bank Street School for Children National School Walkout: Enough
6. Booker T. Washington Middle School Walk Out
7. West side Rally/walkout
8. MCSM Student Movement
9. Stephen Gaynor School Walkout
10. The IDEAL School of Manhattan says #ENOUGH
11. Convent of the Sacred Heart National School Walkout: #Enough
12. Hunter College High School Walkout
13. #TREVORSAYSENOUGH
14. YCS Parent and Community Walkout
15. The Center School Walkout
16. Calhoun School #ENOUGH Walkout
17. The Computer School Walk Out
18. Special Music School Walkout
19. Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School Walkout
20. Fordham University Walkout Against Gun Violence
21. Beacon High School Walkout
22. #ENOUGH Walkout
23. NYU Medical School Students for Student Lives
24. Baruch College Campus High School Walkout
25. High School Of Fashion Industries Walkout
26. Avenues: The World School Walkout
27. NYCMS School Walkout
28. Harvest Collegiate High School Walkout
29. School of the Future High School Walkout
30. HPHS Walk Out
31. Harvest Collegiate student walk out
32. ENOUGH: National School Walkout
33. City-As-School High School Walkout
34. Artists in Action
35. NYC iSchool Student Led Walkout
36. NEST+M Women's March Walkout
37. Bard High School Early College Manhattan ENOUGH Walkout
38. Leadership and Public Service High School
39. Blue School 8th Grade Walkout
40. Primary
41. Millennium High School Walkout

Brooklyn

1. Brooklyn Apple Academy
2. Brooklyn College
3. Brooklyn Emerging Leaders Academy
4. Brooklyn Law School
5. Brooklyn Preparatory High School
6. Brooklyn Prospect Charter School
7. Brooklyn School of Inquiry
8. Brooklyn Technical High School
9. Brooklyn Urban Garden Charter School
10. City Tech
11. Edward R. Murrow High School
12. High School For Public Service
13. High School Telecommunication Arts and Technology
14. Middle School 50
15. Middle School 51 - William Alexander
16. Middle School 821 - Sunset Park Prep
17. Middle School 839
18. Midwood High School
19. Packer Collegiate Institute
20. Public School 8 - Robert Fulton
21. Public School 21 - Crispus Attucks Elementary School
22. PS 84 - Jose de Diego School
23. Public School 110 - The Monitor School
24. Public School 321 - William Penn School
25. Spring Creek Community School
26. Unity Preparatory Middle & High School
27. Williamsburg Northside School
28. McKinley Middle School

Queens

1. Academy for Careers in Television and Film
2. Bard High School Early College Queens
3. Academy of American Studies
4. Baccalaureate School for Global Education
5. Queens College
6. The Queens School of Inquiry
7. Queens High School for the Sciences
8. Cambria Heights Academy
9. Al-Mamoor School
10. Benjamin N. Cardozo High School
11. Bayside High School
12. Francis Lewis High School

(Students participate in a protest against gun violence Feb. 21, 2018 on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)