A New York Daily News Exclusive
By Ben Chapman
Nearly one in 10 city schoolkids was homeless during the school year
that ended in June, representing a whopping 22% jump in homelessness
over the year before, the Daily News has learned.
A staggering 105,445 homeless students attended city schools in the
2015-16 year, up from 86,694 in the 2014-15 school year, according to
data posted online Monday by the New York State Technical and Education
Assistance Center for Homeless Students (NYS-TEACHS), a project of the
nonprofit Advocates for Children of New York.
That number includes charter schools and is more than double the city’s
pre-recession homeless student population of 50,926 for the 2007-08
school year. Roughly 1.1 million students are enrolled in the city
schools.
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Source: The New York Daily News (via The Empire Report)
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