NYC parents fear migrant surge in schools: ‘This situation is horrible’By Georgett Roberts, Desheania Andrews, Bernadette Hogan and Jesse O’Neill
August 9, 2023
Manhattan parents were concerned about overcrowding in their children’s already strained schools a day after City Hall warned of an influx of “thousands” of migrants in New York City public schools.
“The kids that are already there are crammed…… It was 28 kids in my daughter’s classroom last year, and that was the second grade. I’m worried that this year it could be 30-plus, you know, 40,” said Maria Blanco, a Chelsea elementary school parent.
Some 18,500 children in the city’s shelter system are enrolled in public schools for the upcoming year, but in addition to migrants, that figure also includes homeless children, according to the city.
It does not account for asylum-seeking kids who have not yet registered for school – a number which will grow sharply in the coming weeks amid a “very large” expected influx, officials warned Tuesday.
Many migrant families are being housed in the heart of Manhattan, which has resulted in the borough’s Community Education Council District 2 seeing about 1,200 migrant kids in its roughly 40 schools which span from the Battery to the Upper East Side, according to CED 2 leaders.
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https://nypost.com/2023/08/09/nyc-parents-fear-migrant-surge-in-schools-this-situation-is-horrible/
