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  • Report: Funding cuts threaten services for asylum-seeking kids in NYC

    Jun 20, 2023

    Since July 2022, New York City’s school system has helped enroll over 18,000 new students in temporary housing.
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    City & State | The future of several key programs that have helped support immigrant students is at risk – a looming reality made all the more urgent by the arrival of thousands of asylum-seeking families who’ve leaned on subsidized child care and intensive English classes while navigating a new city and school system, according to a new analysis from Advocates for Children of New York, an advocacy group focused on the educational rights of marginalized children.

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