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NYC DOE team aiding homeless students facing ‘leadership vacuum’ amid migrant flood
09.16.2022 | NY Post | “It is critical for the DOE to have strong leadership, particularly at a time when there is an influx of new migrant students entering shelters,” said Randi Levine, policy director at Advocates for Children, whose focus includes students in temporary housing and foster care.
Close to two-thirds of city students living in shelters were already chronically missing class before this school year or absent at least one in every 10 school days, data show. Read article