The new school year could be getting off to a bumpy start in New York City, with bus drivers threatening to go on strike and thousands of migrant children set to enter the city's public schools.
With the potential threat of a bus drivers' strike looming and thousands of migrants and asylum seekers set to enter New York City's public schools, it could be a bumpy start to the school year in the Big Apple. FOX 5 NY's Chris Welch has the story.New York City public schools Chancellor David Banks struck an optimistic tone Wednesday in describing what he calls the "potential" school bus strike— primarily because discussions appear to be ongoing.
If bus drivers strike, 80,000 students would be affected. That’s more than half the city’s public school busing population— a large percentage of which are students with special education needs.The city’s contingency plans include emergency metro cards for subway and bus trips for families affected and prepaid vouchers for rideshares. Education officials say a remote learning option for students who can't make it to school is not under consideration.
Banks did say that even though buses will run on Thursday for the first day of school, there may still be delays and disruptions. He says as of Wednesday, not all families have received their specific route information, and he’s asking them to be patient.Officials say migrant parents have 30 days to bring their children to the Roosevelt Hotel to get checked out by a doctor and get the required vaccinations, but there may be no consequences for not doing so.
Further complicating the start of the new school year is the addition of more than 100,000 asylum seekers to the metro since last Spring, many of those families with school aged children.But he says there will be more of an effort to spread students around to prevent overcrowding at specific schools.New York City public school students are set to return to class this week, and that will incude thousands of migrant and asylum seeker children who have arrived in the city over the last year.
"We need to take care of these children in front of us. So that’s gonna be the challenge all year," Mulgrew said.that I have read and agree
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