Since April 2022, 110,000 migrants have come to New York, with 10,000 arriving a month, largely bused here to the Port Authority terminal by conservative leaders from border states like Texas, in a political dispute about border security.

The surge has forced city officials to open more than 200 emergency sites to house migrants, after its traditional shelters became overwhelmed. And schools are feeling the strain as well.

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    1 year ago

    Running the math, 1 out of every 45 students in the NYC school system is a migrant child. So if we get rid of them all, class sizes will fall from 45 students per teacher to 44 students per teacher.

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      1 year ago

      Ok? Smaller class sizer are good, but 1 student per teacher is not a big deal. But the us in general should be doubling the number of teachers.