The NYC Department of Education has allotted $12 million in additional funds to schools with 6+ new students living in city shelters and hotels. The funding will go towards hiring more Spanish-speaking staff and more social emotional support for kids.
Make your contribution now and help Gothamist thrive in 2022.Mayor Eric Adams is releasing an additional $2,000 in funding per student to schools that received an influx of students seeking asylum in this country, the administration announced Monday.
Since July, more than 7,200 students living in temporary housing enrolled in public school, according to the DOE, and the vast majority of those new students are asylum seekers. At a rally on the steps of DOE headquarters Monday morning, Comptroller Brad Lander said his office calculates each schoolLander said “$2,000 each, that's great," but added “that is not enough money to hire Spanish speaking teachers to resource and support their dual-language programs and to provide the support that every one of those students need.”based on city projections that enrollment would decline.
“We don't know where it is, and we would like to have more transparency around where it's going and how it's being spent,” she said. Some schools managed to use their existing budgets to bulk up staff, though she’d only heard of them bringing on interns and temporary counselors, not permanent, fully-trained bilingual educators.
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