Thousands of migrant families in New York City are facing a summer of uncertainty for their school-aged children.
When Damien Carchipulla started his first school year in New York City in September, the first grader's family was living in a Manhattan hotel for migrant families.In the 10 months since, the family of four from Ecuador has moved shelters three times under a policy Mayor Eric Adams imposed in the fall that limits the number of days migrants can stay in a single place. Every 60 days they must give up their shelter beds and reapply for housing or leave the system.
But when their 60 days ran out, they had to move to another shelter and transfer to another school, Arias said. Then when the family secured their own apartment in Brooklyn, the children had to switch schools again, this time to a smaller one where few people spoke Spanish."As a grandmother, I'm worried. The children don’t want to go to school. They’re not adjusting because of the language and because they don’t have friends.," Arias said in Spanish. "They cry.
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