03.23.2020 | Bklyner | There are about 114,000 students in New York City\u2019s public schools who live in shelters, are doubled-up in cramped apartments, or otherwise lack stable housing. About a dozen advocacy groups sent the chancellor a letter on Friday calling on the city to allow those children to be cared for at the centers.<\/p>
\u201cPicture a parent of children at multiple grade levels spending their time in a hotel room. That\u2019s not an appropriate space for learning,\u201d said Randi Levine, policy director at Advocates for Children, which signed on to the letter. (Some homeless families are housed in commercial hotels.)<\/p>