Since last summer, tens of thousands of migrant families living in homeless shelters have enrolled children in New York City schools. Their arrival buoyed the system, which had been losing students, prompting the mayor to declare that “public schools are back.”
But now, the city is forcing many of those families to reapply for shelter beds, threatening what educators say is a hard-fought and fragile stability for migrant children, many of whom endured upheaval and trauma on their journey to America.
About 3,500 migrant families have received eviction notices that will go into effect starting in early January. They will be required to leave their shelters and request a new placement if they have lived there longer than 60 days. It remains unclear whether they’ll be given beds right away and whether the new shelters will be in the same neighborhoods.
The orders come as the influx from the southern border continues unabated and Mayor Eric Adams has sought to push people to leave the strained homeless shelter system more quickly.
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