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Parents at NYC special needs school protest possible removal amid migrant influx

Parents at Manhattan special needs school concerned about potential relocation due to influx of migrant kids. [ more ]

BKReader

1 month ago

NYC politics

City to Engage Migrants About Importance of Sending Children to School

Mayor Adams appointed a task force to engage migrant parents about sending their children to school.

City Councilwoman Ariola expressed concern about young migrant children selling snacks on subways and streets. [ more ]

WBGO

1 month ago

NYC school enrollment figures disprove Trump statement about migrants replacing kids in schools

Migrant children not displacing students in NYC schools

NYC public schools experiencing decrease in enrollment due to pandemic [ more ]

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people

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Berlin

German chancellor, state officials meet for migration summit

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has invited top officials of the country's 16 states for a summit Wednesday on the growing number of asylum-seekers and the lack of housing and spaces in schools or kindergartens for them.The federal government and the states have been arguing for months over who gets to pay for the rising costs.

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US politics

Gov. Jay Inslee of Washington, Climate Champion, Won't Seek Re-Election

Gov. Jay Inslee of Washington State, the nation's longest-serving current governor and one of the Democratic Party's leading climate defenders, will not seek a fourth term in office next year, he announced on Monday.Serving the people as governor of Washington State has been my greatest honor, he said.

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Arts

Two migrant kids fight to stay together and stay alive in this harrowing film

Lokita (Joely Mbundu) and Tori (Pablo Schils) are two migrant children making their way in Belgium in the latest from Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne.Janus Films For nearly three decades, the Belgian brothers Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne have been making gripping moral thrillers about characters caught up in desperate circumstances.

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Berlin

UK minister visits migrant centers to grapple with crisis

Britain's interior minister visited immigration facilities on England's southeastern coast Thursday as she grappled with an overcrowding crisis at a migrant facility and outcry over her claim that the U.K. faced an invasion of asylum-seekers.Home Secretary Suella Braverman is under heavy pressure to address potentially unlawful conditions at Manston, a converted airfield that has held some 3,500 people who made the hazardous journey across the English Channel on small boats to U.K. shores.

amNewYork

New York City schools to receive more funding to aid migrant students | amNewYork

New York City Schools Chancellor David C. Banks announced an expansion of funding for city schools experiencing an increase in Students in Temporary Housing (STH).The program aids schools, which were identified by the Project Open Arms program, with six or more STH by allocating $2,000 for each new STH enrolled in the school since July.

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Number of migrants crossing the Channel this year edges closer to 33,000

Almost 500 migrants arrived in the UK in one day as the total number of Channel crossings for the year so far edged closer to 33,000.

Gothamist

NYC schools will lose $1B under Mayor Adams' proposed cuts

The New York City Department of Education's budget would shrink by almost $1 billion under the new financial plan proposed by Mayor Eric Adams earlier this week.The mayor's $107 billion executive budget envisions devoting roughly $30.6 billion to the education department in the next fiscal year, compared to the approximately $31.5 billion it expects to spend by the end of the current fiscal year.

amNewYork

United Federation of Teachers rallies against cutbacks to city's early childhood program | amNewYork

Several hundred social workers, educators, and parents joined the United Federation of Teachers (UFT) for a rally and press conference Friday outside Tweed Courthouse demanding that the Department of Education save early childhood programs and reinstate nearly 400 instructional coordinators (ICs) and social workers who were "excessed" in September.

New York Daily News

NYC's homeless student population increased last school year despite enrollment drop: data

The number of New York City students experiencing homelessness increased last school year even though the Department of Education saw a significant drop in enrollment over the same period, according to data exclusively obtained by the Daily News.The data, compiled by Advocates for Children of New York, shows that about 104,000 students across the city's public school system suffered from homelessness in the last school year, which stretched from September 2021 through June 2022.

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Washington Post

Europe news

EU deal to move migrant children from Greece officially ends

A group of unaccompanied minors wait in a queue to board a plane bound for Lisbon, Portugal, at the Eleftherios Venizelos International Airport in Athens, Greece, March 28, 2023.The 15 children from Somalia, Gambia and Pakistan were being transferred as part of a voluntary relocation programme among European Union member states.

City & State NY

3 weeks ago

New York City Council finds migrant children evicted from shelters saw school interrupted

Nearly one in five migrant children had schooling interrupted due to eviction notices. [ more ]

www.nytimes.com

2 months ago

Parenting

U.S. Failed to Safeguard Many Migrant Children, Review Finds

Department of Health and Human Services failed to thoroughly vet adult sponsors for migrant children

Children placed in dangerous working conditions [ more ]

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Parenting

Arkansas rolls back child labor protections

By Sydney Kashiwagi | CNN Arkansas Republican Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders signed a bill into law this week that rolls back a number of child labor protections across the state, including a measure that had required employers to obtain work certificates for children under the age of 16.The Governor believes protecting kids is most important, but this permit was an arbitrary burden on parents to get permission from the government for their child to get a job, Sanders' spokesperson Alexa Henning said in a statement.

Cbsnews

3 months ago

NYC politics

New York City schools feeling strain of migrant surge

Over 34,000 migrant children have enrolled in New York City Public Schools in the past 18 months.

New York City is facing a teacher shortage and lacks space to accommodate a larger influx of migrant children. [ more ]

www.independent.co.uk

11 months ago

Horrendous' practice of handcuffing children in care must be banned, MPs warn

A coalition of MPs and peers is calling for the horrendous practice of handcuffing children in care during transport to be banned.Local authorities often use private firms when moving children between care homes or to hospital or court appointments, but concerns have been raised that in some instances restraints are used.

www.independent.co.uk

11 months ago

Children handcuffed and subject to rub-down searches at Border Force detention sites

Migrant children have been handcuffed and subjected to rub-down searches in a wave of unacceptable treatment by UK Border Force staff, a watchdog has found.HM Inspectorate of Prisons condemned the use of restraint on children at short-term holding facilities as disproportionate and unacceptable, following inspections at five airports and 10 seaports in January this year.

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Filmmaker turned poet creates book and clothing line inspired by wild landscapes

A filmmaker turned poet has penned a book and created a children's sustainable clothing line inspired by wild landscapes on the island of Ireland.

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