During a special City Council hearing this week, officials detailed how the surge of students from asylum-seeking families has strained the city’s school system.
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Roughly 9,800 new students from homeless shelters have enrolled in city schools since July, said Melissa Ramos, who heads the Department of Education's effort to integrate the newly arrived children into classrooms across the five boroughs. The city doesn’t track families’ immigration status, but many of those kids come from migrant families bused to New York from states along the southern border.
The undertaking has been enormous, and put significant pressure on the city’s school system — a strain that is only expected to increase if more migrant families arrive in New York, city officials said during this week’s Council hearings.” a multiagency plan to help migrant students adjust to their new normal. But as the number of students has grown, new struggles have risen.Most of the newly arrived children are unvaccinated, which has become a key focus for health officials, Dr.
Long said the city's health department has dispatched teams to shelters to give new students their shots, but noted that not all students are fully vaccinated when they start school. The city’s health officials are in a race to keep up, as students are required to complete their vaccination series within 30 days of enrollment.
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