30 The Queens Courier • OCTOBER 31, 2019 FOR BREAKING NEWS VISIT www.qns.com
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City Hall must do more to curb the high number of homeless students
The number of homeless New York
City students is absolutely 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
identified as homeless during the
2018-19 school year, according to state
Education Department statistics studied
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REACH: 23,456 people reached (as of 10/21/19)
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 identified
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 fill 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 proficiently, rates that are 20
percentage points lower than their permanently
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 afterschool
shelters.
More has to be done or the shame will
continue to haunt the de Blasio administration.
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