QUESTION
How is the situation regarding asylum seekers and school support in NYC being managed?
2:23:09
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The dynamic situation at the border is causing fluctuations in the number of asylum seekers, but efforts are made to maintain continuity in children's education.
- Numbers of asylum seekers arriving in NYC are beginning to increase again.
- School staff have played a heroic role in supporting the educational needs of children from asylum-seeking families.
- The Mayor's Office of Asylum Seeker Operations (MOASO) is committed to minimizing disruptions in schooling as much as possible.
Gale Brewer
2:23:09
I hope the 60 day, 30 day for families ends because I do, okay, now we've got them under our first guys.
2:23:16
Maybe they do have family in Texas, and that's worked out.
2:23:19
Someone who are coming back though, as you know, and they're calling the schools because that's where they know a trusted partner.
2:23:25
And they're returning because wherever they ended up in Idaho, whatever is not great.
2:23:31
So I'm just suggesting that we don't go through this again.
2:23:34
I mean, I I do know that the numbers of families going into the schools is going down because I assume that whatever's going on at the border, whatever, People are not hearing great things about New York or whatever reason.
2:23:46
So maybe we don't have to go through the 60 day thing again with the family.
2:23:49
Is that being considered?
Molly Schaeffer
2:23:51
So I wanna say that things at the border are incredibly dynamic as you know.
2:23:56
Numbers are starting to tick up again.
2:23:58
Which is, you know, is what it is.
2:24:01
And so we constantly have to pivot and shift and manage in terms of peaks and valleys, in terms of times of surge and times of not surge.
2:24:11
We I cannot speak enough about the heroic nature of school staff.
Gale Brewer
2:24:18
I've said they've
Anne Faucet
2:24:19
been over and over again.
Molly Schaeffer
2:24:20
Like, it's amazing what the what they've been able to provide the kids.
2:24:26
And we will continue to make sure that we are not disrupting kids schooling as best as possible.