Q&A
Transportation challenges for students in foster care
3:05:08
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54 sec
Council Member Rita Joseph addresses transportation challenges for students in foster care, expressing concern about the lengthy process for arranging transportation.
- Highlights the 30-day wait time for foster care students to get transportation
- Discusses issues with rideshare services and the impact on foster placements or relatives
- Emphasizes how transportation problems can lead to students missing school and causing larger issues
Rita Joseph
3:05:08
And we talk about foster care student You know, I'm a very big passionate advocate for students in foster care.
3:05:15
And I keep saying that if folks don't realize it take 30 days for students in foster care to get into transportation.
3:05:22
Commissioner told me was is gotten better.
3:05:25
But you're here to sound me.
3:05:26
It's not.
Alexandra Rapisarda
3:05:28
We're still seeing a lot of issues especially when it comes to if a rideshare service is provided and the foster placement or the relative that a child is living with isn't able to miss work, to take a child from Brooklyn to Staten Island, or even if it's a much shorter distance than that, there there's not a solution in place for those children.
3:05:52
And unfortunately, many children are then missing school, and it snowballs into a greater issue from there.
Rita Joseph
3:06:00
Council member 1 has a question.
