A record-high 154,000 public school students — nearly one in seven — were homeless across New York City during the last school year, grim new data revealed Monday.
If those kids alone made up their own school district, it would be among one of the 20 largest districts in the country, according to the figures compiled for the Advocates for Children of New York’s annual report.
The shocking numbers, obtained from the New York State Education Department, mark an all-time high of homeless kids in the city’s public school system — but continue a decade-long trend.
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“Every year for the past decade, more than 100,000 students in our public schools have been homeless,” said Jennifer Pringle, project director at Advocates for Children.
“There are now more students who are homeless in NYC than the entire Dallas public school system.”…