More than a quarter-million New York City public school students do not have a parent who speaks English fluently, and its causing a communication breakdown with the Department of Education, according to Advocates for Children of New York (AFC).
AFC released a report highlighting this data while called on Mayor Eric Adams and the NYC Council to invest $6 million in the 2023 fiscal budget to establish a permanent and centralized system to support immigrant family communications at the Department of Education (DOE).
