Schools are scrambling to provide asylum seekers with everything from warm clothing to emotional support.
Teachers, activists, advocates and school administrators agree, making clear that more financial support is needed to enable the DOE to hire additional bilingual teachers, paraprofessionals, counselors, social workers and evaluators.
In addition, many of the children came to New York without warm clothing, and while the school’s PTA and staff have raised money to provide the students and their families with winter coats, boots, toiletries and book bags, Cordova says that there are limits to what any school can provide. “These families need permanent housing, jobs and immigration authorization,” he says.. “That was just one of the challenges.
In addition, some schools have larger budgets than others, leading to an uneven ability to address the migrants’ needs, said Rita Rodriguez-Engberg, director of the immigrant student rights project atAn administrative glitch further compounds the inequity. “For the school to get the $2,000 per student, the student needs to be living in a shelter or hotel,” she told“Those who are living doubled or tripled up with friends or family are not counted.
That said, dedicated faculty, parents’ associations and a host of community-based organizations have stepped up to demand that the DOE do better while simultaneously trying to provide for the families. Middle School 50 in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, for example, is opening its kitchen to people living in shelters and temporary housing so that they can prepare the kinds of home-cooked meals they crave. Book giveaways and clothing and food drives have become also common.
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