I-Team: Children in NYC Shelters Denied Buses to School, Forced to Take Long Subway Trips

By Melissa Russo and Evan Stulberger

Many of the city’s most vulnerable children – those living in homeless shelters and temporary housing -- are being denied buses to school, the I-Team has learned.

Under federal law, children living in shelters and temporary housing are entitled to free transportation due to their vulnerable state. But in many cases in New York City, the free transportation they get is not a big yellow school bus, but a small yellow MetroCard for long, exhausting subway trips.

“It’s not really fair,” said one mom living with her two children in a domestic violence shelter who asked that her name not be used out of privacy concerns. 

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Source: NBC New York, I-Team Investigations