Since New York passed the Jose Peralta DREAM Act in 2019, making immigrant students eligible for state-administered financial aid they were previously cut off from, more colleges and organizations have opened their doors so undocumented students can access scholarships.
En 2022, unos 100.000 estudiantes indocumentados se graduaban de las escuelas secundarias de los Estados Unidos. En Nueva York, se calcula que unos 4.500 estudiantes indocumentados se graduaban de las escuelas secundarias en todo el estado en 2019.
La ciudad ofrecerá este verano un programa de formación laboral abierto a los jóvenes indocumentados, según ha conocido City Limits, respondiendo a las peticiones de defensores y legisladores que han estado presionando para que se ofrezca una alternativa al popular Programa de Empleo Juvenil de Verano (SYEP por sus siglas en inglés), para el que los estudiantes indocumentados no son elegibles.
The city will offer a work-readiness training program this summer open to undocumented youth, City Limits has learned—answering calls from advocates and lawmakers who’ve been pushing for an alternative to the popular Summer Youth Employment Program (SYEP), for which undocumented students aren’t eligible.
Defensores de inmigrantes están haciendo sonar la alarma por los presupuestos preliminares tanto de la gobernadora Hochul como del alcalde Adams ya que no solo dejan por fuera varios programas emblemáticos por los que han luchado en los últimos años los activistas, sino que también proponen reducciones en programas que imparten clases de inglés, educación y ciudadanía de los que dependen los inmigrantes neoyorquinos.
“If Mayor Adams truly wants to make good on his promises to stem the homelessness crisis in the city and provide substantive mental health to the city’s youth, he must first make it easier, not harder, to access safe and affordable housing.”
Advocates are sounding the alarm over both Gov. Hochul and Mayor Adams’ spending proposals, which failed to include several flagship programs they’ve fought for in recent years as well as reductions to programs that provide English language, literacy and citizenship classes that immigrant New Yorkers rely on.
“While I applaud Gov. Hochul’s initial steps to alleviate the shortage of services in school, I hope that she and federal officials consider addressing the therapist shortage …Without those steps, waiting lists will remain long.”
Across the country, cities are transforming asphalt schoolyards into spongy, shady community centers. The new playground at PS 184M Shuang Wen School in Manhattan’s Chinatown, for example, has a porous turf field that can capture an estimated 1.3 million gallons of stormwater runoff.
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