Q&A
Inquiry into busing statistics for students in temporary housing
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Council Member Julie Won questions the accuracy of reported numbers for students in temporary housing receiving bus services. She highlights a discrepancy between the 36,000 migrant students reported and the 5,197 students in DHS shelters mentioned earlier.
- Won expresses concern about the low number of students reported to be receiving bus services.
- Glenn Risbrook clarifies that the numbers provided are for students with exceptions, not including those who receive busing through IEPs or grade and distance criteria.
Julie Won
0:45:44
a few follow-up questions.
0:45:47
For students in temporary housing, Right now, as of March 2024, New York City Public Schools testified that there are about 36,000 migrant students as of the last school year.
0:46:00
You just testified that the number of students residing in DHS shelters were about 5 197.
0:46:06
Can you help me understand where the gap is?
0:46:08
Because in my district alone, if I have 28 shelters, majority family shelters, and now we've gone a few months of 60 day turnover, I know that those students are still registered in my school, which means that an estimate of at least like 3000 students in my school district alone and district 30 has more than 5000 students who have now been displaced outside of my district Western Queens and have to be bused to school.
0:46:32
Can you help me understand the accuracy of the 5397 number for the school bus?
0:46:39
And how it's so low for the entire city when pretty much every single shelter that has families has now been displaced.
Glenn Risbrook
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Well, those are students who thank you for the question.
0:46:48
Those are students that have that we have exceptions for, but there are students that that receive busing that get it through their IAPs or through their grade and distance as well.
0:46:58
So those are not in that number.
