""Because my son isn't going to school, I can't start my job search and begin earning income to rent her own apartment... I need a professional who can educate him on an academic level.""
"Last school year, 63% of the roughly 65,000 students who lived in homeless shelters were marked chronically absent - meaning they missed at least 1 in 10 school days. That's more than double the rate of students with permanent housing.""
Dorainy Santos and her sons moved to a Bronx homeless shelter, but her kindergartner with autism has not started school due to enrollment challenges. After months of waiting and assistance from Advocates for Children, he was placed in a distant school. Many children in NYC's homeless shelters face similar issues, with 63% marked chronically absent last school year. Long commutes and frequent relocations hinder their education, prompting advocates to call for increased funding and better coordination of services for these students.
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