Thousands of migrant families in New York City are facing a summer of uncertainty for their school-aged children. The city limits migrant families to 60 days in a shelter before they need to reapply or secure their own housing. That means navigating their children’s educational needs even during the summer.
Migrant Darwin Salinas, 24, left, travels with his wife Kimberly Carchipulla, 23, second left, partly seen, and his sons Damien, 6, center, and Derek, 1, Sunday, June 16, 2024, near Newark, N.J. Thousands of migrant families in New York City are facing a summer of uncertainty for their school-aged children with a citywide limit of 60 days in a shelter before needing to reapply or find their own.
“A lot has changed because new laws were put in place,” Carchipulla said in Spanish while picking up Damien after school one day. “They get stressed. They get upset. Every 60 days, it’s a new home.” Carchipulla, who is 23, counts her family among the lucky ones: the three moves they made during the school year were all to other midtown Manhattan hotels, so her son’s daily commute remained relatively the same.The 55-year-old from Ecuador said her daughter arrived in January with her 10-year-old son and 8-year-old daughter. They were immediately placed in a shelter and enrolled in a local school where Spanish was widely spoken.
School officials didn’t have a final tally for how many migrant students were affected by the shelter time limits. “The one thing we want to remain constant for our kids is school,” she said. “But we also want to support our families with their choices, because the families have the right to remain in their school, or they may choose to go to a new school closer to their new residence.”
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