editorial
City Hall must do more to curb number of homeless students
The number of homeless
New York City students is absolutely
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BRONX TIMES REPORTER, N 12 OVEMBER 1-7, 2019 BTR
appalling and should
bring shame upon the de Blasio
administration for doing
next to nothing to solve this
crisis.
More than 114,000 youngsters
were identifi ed as homeless
during the 2018-19 school
year, according to state Education
Department statistics
studied by Advocates for
Children in New York City.
To show that there has
been no concerted effort to
address the issue there is this
shocking statistic.The data
shows that the number of students
identifi ed as homeless
has topped 100,000 for the
fourth consecutive years.
This includes public and
charter school students and
the report further shows that
the number has steadily increased
by more than 70 percent
over the last decade.
“This problem is immense.
The number of New
York City students who experienced
homelessness last
year — 85 percent of whom
are black or Hispanic —
could fi ll the Barclays Center
six times,” Advocate for Children
Executive Director Kim
Sweet said. “The city won’t
be able to break the cycle of
homelessness until we address
the dismal educational
outcomes for students who
are homeless.”
For these students, homelessness
and educational outcomes
are inexorably tied.
Fewer than a third of New
York City students who are
homeless are reading profi -
ciently, rates that are 20 percentage
points lower than
their permanently housed
peers.
Only 57 percent of all
New York City students who
are homeless graduate from
high school and for those living
in shelters, the outcomes
are even more stark — fewer
than half graduate from high
school.
National research from
Chapin Hall’s Voice for Youth
Count has shown that the
lack of a high school diploma
is the single greatest risk factor
for homelessness among
young adults, putting youth
without a diploma at 4.5
times the risk of experiencing
homelessness as adults
compared to their peers who
completed high school.
City Hall has taken some
positive steps including placing
100 ‘Bridging the Gap’ social
workers and more than
100 community coordinators
in schools with high numbers
of students who are homeless,
offering yellow bus service
the kindergarten through
sixth grade students living
in shelter, increasing pre-K
enrollment among children
living in shelter, and providing
after-school reading programs
at certain shelters.
More has to be done or the
shame will continue to haunt
the de Blasio administration.
(Right) Advocates for Children of
New York illustration showing the
estimated percentage of New York
City students experiencing homelessness
by school district from
2018 to 2019.
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