NYC schools need millions in additional funding to help migrant students, comptroller says

We are supported by our readers. Consider donating to fund the local reporting you rely on. [View in Browser]( Tuesday October 18, 2022 [Donate now]( ADVERTISEMENT [NYC schools need millions in additional funding to help migrant students: Lander]( [Wendy Robys leads a bilingual classroom at P.S./M.S. 5. Some of her students are asylum seekers.]( [Mayor Adams should restore school budget cuts to properly serve more than 5,500 asylum-seeking students, the comptroller said.]( ADVERTISEMENT More Stories From Today [Amazon Labor Union organizers rally in the Albany area.]( [Amazon Labor Union loses vote at Albany-area fulfillment center]( [ALU successfully unionized a Staten Island warehouse earlier this year, but couldn’t replicate the win upstate.]( [Long Island-based Rep. Lee Zeldin will face off against incumbent Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul in November.]( [New polls show NY Gov. Kathy Hochul’s lead over Lee Zeldin is shrinking]( [A pair of polls released Tuesday show Republican Lee Zeldin closing in on the Democratic incumbent.]( [Pickleballers play at Corporal John A. Seravalli Playground in the West Village, next children playing basketball.]( [At hearing, West Village parents and players sound off on pickleball dill-emma]( [The increasingly popular paddle sport has taken the Manhattan community by storm, creating a battle for the city’s limited open asphalt space between players and parents.]( [Republican Commissioner for the city Board of Elections Frederic Umane [inset] questioned why the Board sent out mailers reminding voters about the November general election, drawing concerns from advocacy groups.]( [Manhattan GOP commissioner asks why BOE is telling voters about upcoming election]( [Democrats and voting rights advocates said the comments made by the commissioner fit into a larger pattern of Republicans seeking to undermine confidence in the fairness of election administration in New York.]( [Monkeypox cases in NYC as of Oct. 18, 2022]( [NYC has almost eliminated monkeypox. An NYU biology prof on what the city needs to reach zero]( [Blacks and Latinos are still undervaccinated, even though people with shots are 14 times less likely to catch the virus.]( [A man waits for a train at the Roosevelt Avenue subway station in Queens .]( [Queens resident faces manslaughter charges after subway death]( [A 50-year-old man is accused of engaging in a physical altercation on a Queens subway platform that led to the death of a 48-year-old man.]( [kids on bikes on the Brighton Beach boardwalk]( [Extra Extra: Long Island social worker was keeping 118 rabbits, 100,000 roaches and tons of other critters in her house]( [Because that's not allowed, here are your end-of-day links: working for the city sounds like a bummer right now, Manhattan DA is returning looted antiques to India, Semafor is your go-to website for clocks, and more.]( [The board of correction meeting on Tuesday, with empty seats in the front where correction staffers would have sat if they had shown up.]( [Correction commissioner absent from oversight hearing as Rikers Island violence escalates]( [It was the second month in a row Louis Molina snubbed the jails’ oversight board.]( [A photo of workers at the Clock Tower Building striking for better pay, benefits]( [Building workers at Tribeca's luxury 'Clock Tower' condo go on strike]( [Apartments in the historic building cost anywhere from $3.5 to $24.4 million, but for a while at least, residents will have to take out their own trash.]( [Photo by Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images]( [10 years after Sandy, NJ eyes development rules that expect more flooding from climate change]( [The state will hold two hearings this week to discuss a new rule for inland areas, finally moving past its reliance on flood maps that haven’t been updated since 1999.]( ADVERTISEMENT [Support Us]( Follow Gothamist on [Gothamist on Facebook]( [Gothamist on Twitter]( NYPR Network [WNYC]() [Gothamist]() [WNYC Studios]() [NJPR]( [WQXR]() [New Sounds]() Copyright © New York Public Radio, 160 Varick St., New York, NY 10013. All rights reserved. [Terms of Use]( Want to change how you receive these emails? You can [update your preferences]( or [unsubscribe]( from this list.