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Education of migrant children threatened by NYC 60-day shelter limit
October 29, 2023 6:40AM ET
Migrants are seen arriving from Texas at the Port Authority Bus Terminal in New York on Sept. 6, 2023. - Luiz C. Ribeiro/New York Daily News/TNS
NEW YORK — One of Henry Hernandez’s biggest joys this past year has been watching his daughter thrive at her new school. Everything else — the irregular gigs, asylum applications, legal fees and instability of living at the emergency shelter The Row — has passed by in a blur of stress, bureaucracy and disappointment for the migrant from Venezuela. His 6-year-old daughter, Antonella, loves “everything about school,” at P.S. 116 Mary Lindley Murray in Murray Hill. She’s learning English faster than anyone else in the family. He’s proud of her. She’s actually charting a course he imagined as he s...