A Bronx pilot program that is aiming to support students who are homeless may expand citywide.<\/p>\n
“Every Child & Family is Known” is a program that pairs school staff with students and families in shelters.<\/p>\n
The program launched in 2024 in select Bronx schools. Its goal is to support unhoused families through the New York City school system.<\/p>\n
The support includes food, clothing, family workshops and trips.<\/p>\n
P.S. 70 is part of the pilot program. Principal Roxanne Ledda says that when a student feels safe and secure, it shows in the classroom.<\/p>\n
“I mean, it just makes sense! There are certain priorities that have to be met before a child can truly learn,” she said.<\/p>\n
Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani said in a post to X that currently 140,000 kids don’t have stable or permanent housing.<\/p>\n
On Oct. 8, while on the campaign trail, he promised to double the program’s funding and expand it.<\/p>\n
Parents say the program has improved their children’s lives significantly.<\/p>\n
“Everything has been, like, great. I’ve seen a progress. Even her grades has changed a little bit. Reading has been on point,” said one parent.<\/p>\n
School faculty say the program expansion would be a game-changer for city students facing unstable housing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Bronx pilot program that is aiming to support students who are homeless may expand citywide. “Every Child…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":53733,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,20995,2000,9,24,63,8413,2585,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-53732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-homeless","tag-homelessness","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-student","tag-students","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53732\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}