NEW YORK — Local public schools are preparing for a record number of migrant students — many of whom do not speak English and faced traumatic experiences in their home countries and on their journeys to the United States — when classes resume next week. Roughly 19,000 newly arrived children in need of language and mental health services, including 500 students who arrived over the summer, have .
After multiple analyses found that the highest-poverty schools are least likely to benefit from the new law, Commissioner Betty Rosa said the equity implications are “a problem.”
Smaller classes are popular with families and teachers. But a new law that mandates class size reductions will disproportionately benefit lower-need campuses.
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