{"id":275,"date":"2023-11-29T15:46:48","date_gmt":"2023-11-29T15:46:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/?p=275"},"modified":"2023-12-23T15:47:57","modified_gmt":"2023-12-23T15:47:57","slug":"childrens-education-top-of-mind-for-asylum-seeker-families-now-facing-eviction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/2023\/11\/29\/childrens-education-top-of-mind-for-asylum-seeker-families-now-facing-eviction\/","title":{"rendered":"Children&#8217;s education top of mind for asylum seeker families now facing eviction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/newyork\/news\/childrens-education-top-of-mind-for-asylum-seeker-families-now-facing-eviction\/\">CBS New York<\/a> &#8211; &#8220;They told us they&#8217;re going to relocate us, but not here in Manhattan, not close to where my kids go to school,&#8221; the mother said. &#8220;My daughter, who is 16 years old, she tells me, &#8216;Mommy, I don&#8217;t want to go to another location,&#8217; or to somewhere far away because she likes the school.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;At this hearing, I want to focus on the harm shelter evictions have caused for public school students,&#8221; said City Councilmember Shahana Hanif, chair of the Committee on Immigration. &#8220;When a child is forced to leave a shelter their place in the school community is threatened.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hanif questioned Department of Education officials at a hearing Wednesday about whether or not students can stay in their current schools even if they move [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/newyork\/news\/childrens-education-top-of-mind-for-asylum-seeker-families-now-facing-eviction\/\">Read More<\/a>].<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/newyork\/news\/childrens-education-top-of-mind-for-asylum-seeker-families-now-facing-eviction\/\">CBS New York<\/a> &#8211; &#8220;They told us they&#8217;re going to relocate us, but not here in Manhattan, not close to where my kids go to school,&#8221; the mother said. &#8220;My daughter, who is 16 years old, she tells me, &#8216;Mommy, I don&#8217;t want to go to another location,&#8217; or to somewhere far away because she likes the school.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong><small><a href=\"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/2023\/11\/29\/childrens-education-top-of-mind-for-asylum-seeker-families-now-facing-eviction\/\">READ MORE<\/a><\/small><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":288,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/288"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}