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根据纽约市教育局 (DOE) 发布的月度出勤数据，在 2021 年秋季学校全面重新开放后，住在无家可归者收容所的学生的缺勤率仍然明显高于有永久住房的同龄人，而且出勤率差距仍然比疫情之前更大。
30 多个组织发布了一封信，呼吁亚当斯市长和班克斯校长使用专门为临时住房学生提供的联邦 COVID-19 救济资金来雇用 150 名驻庇护所的教育部社区协调员。
Kim Sweet, Executive Director of Advocates for Children of New York (AFC), issued the following statement in response to the New York City Council’s passage of Intro 150-A, creating a task force focused on the transportation of students in temporary housing.
AFC joined more than 40 organizations in releasing recommendations calling on Mayor-elect Adams to take bold action to address the educational needs of students experiencing homelessness, and to overhaul the educational support system in shelters, starting by hiring 150 shelter-based DOE Community Coordinators, and launching an interagency initiative to tackle the educational barriers these students face.
2020-21 学年，纽约市有超过 101,000 名学生被认定为无家可归，比本世纪初增加了 42%，这也是连续第六个学年有超过 100,000 名纽约市学生无家可归。
Mayor-elect Eric Adams will take office at a time when the COVID-19 pandemic has worsened the longstanding inequities in our City’s schools. Based on our 50 years of on-the-ground experience helping students and families navigate the largest school system in the country and get the support they need to learn, we outline some of the most pressing challenges in public education — including those that pre-date COVID — where the incoming Mayor must be prepared to focus attention, energy, and resources.
AFC submitted written testimony to the City Council Committee on General Welfare in strong support of Intro. 1829-2019, which would preclude the Department of Homeless Services from requiring parents to bring their children to shelter intake appointments and help ensure students do not have to miss school when their families apply for shelter.
AFC and the ARISE Coalition (coordinated by AFC) testified before the City Council Committee on Education on the continued work needed to strengthen the DOE’s academic recovery plans this year. While we appreciate that the City is using this funding for some important initiatives, we worry there is still inadequate detail about how the funding will be used, inadequate funding for key priorities, and too much discretion and responsibility left to individual schools that already have their hands full reopening schools and keeping school communities safe.
根据纽约市教育局 (DOE) 发布的月度出勤数据，2021 年冬季和春季，居住在无家可归者收容所的学生在接受教育方面面临的困难明显大于有永久住房的同龄人。
AFC testified before the New York State Senate Education Committee on the DOE’s use of increased state and federal education funding; specifically, how the funding is being used to meet the needs of students with disabilities, English Language Learners, and students experiencing homelessness—students who were hit particularly hard by the closure of schools.