Each day, 40 to 60 migrant students arrive at the busiest Department of Education Welcome Centers to enroll,.
Hundreds of migrant families continue to flood enrollment centers every day with hopes of getting their kids into city public schools by the start of classes next week.
That does not count those registered at dozens of migrant shelters, where DOE workers are being paid overtime to go and enroll kids. Families have been lining up outside Department of Education Welcome Centers, like this one in Jamaica, to get kids, especially newly arrived migrants, enrolled in school just days before it starts.Families check in at the Department of Education’s Welcome Center in Jamaica less than a week before school starts to handle enrollment issues.This coming week will likely be the busiest one yet, Kelly added in the internal message, obtained by The Post.
And some families in shelters and without access to technology may not know which school their child has been assigned to, he added.Mirian Tenezaca and her family, who arrived last month from Ecuador, visited Long Island City on Wednesday to find out what school her son, Juan David, 10, is supposed to attend.They left without knowing.
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