Posted on October 28, 2019 by Noah Manskar in New York City Patch New York City Patch, By Noah Manskar NEW YORK — The last school year was the fourth straight in which New York City’s public schools taught more than 100,000 homeless students, according to new data that shows a continuing crisis in the five boroughs. About one in 10, or 114,085, of the city’s district and charter school students were identified as homeless in the 2018-19 school year — enough to fill the Barclays Center arena six times over, according to figures the New York State Technical and Education Assistance Center for Homeless Students released Monday. The “stubbornly high” total reflects a more than 70 percent increase in student homelessness over the last decade even though the school system’s homeless population shrank by about 600 kids compared to the prior year, says Advocates for Children of New York, the nonprofit that runs the center.
