A record-high of 119,320 students during the 2022-2023 school year were living in the shelter system, “doubled up” in the housing of others or staying in hotels, motels or unsheltered, a new analysis found. The numbers mark the eighth consecutive year that the city’s population of homeless students surpassed 100,000.
The city’s education department insists the funding system is flexible, but the comptroller and education advocates worry some schools won’t get what they need if ‘massive numbers’ of new students enroll later in the year.
City Limits Accountability Reporting Initiative for Youth (CLARIFY) program is accepting applications from high school students in New York City for its fall 2023 session.
En el 2022, la proporción de latinos que hablaban español en casa se ubicó por debajo de la proporción de latinos que hablaban inglés. Justamente durante el 2022, el Pew Research Center encuestó a los hispanos sobre sus perspectivas y experiencias con el idioma español.
“After Hurricane Sandy, my school closed for a week, while whole school student bodies had to be relocated across the city. More recently, my school’s basement and entire first floor flooded the week before school started due to heavy rains.”
“By not requiring schools to have genders and sexualities alliances, or pushing for inclusive curriculum in all schools, the DOE is refusing to take important steps proven to increase the health and safety of students.”
“Without the renewed confidence of principals, the administration’s agenda for improved student outcomes cannot be achieved.”
“The Hope Center for College Community and Justice’s 2019 CUNY #RealCollege Survey found that 55 percent of students worry about where they will live, and 14 percent, or about 34,000 students, are unhoused.”
Miles de estudiantes indocumentados se gradúan al año en California y desde que un juez federal en 2021 impidió que la administración de Joe Biden incluyera a nuevos beneficiarios del programa de Acción Diferida para los Llegados en la Infancia (DACA por sus siglas en inglés), estos se quedan sin opción de ser protegidos contra la deportación y recibir una autorización para trabajar en el país.
Student journalists to be hosted by the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY and CUNY campuses in Queens and Brooklyn for summer reporting workshops.
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