By Melissa Russo and Evan Stulberger
Many of the city’s most vulnerable
children – those living in homeless shelters and temporary housing --
are being denied buses to school, the I-Team has learned.
Under federal
law, children living in shelters and temporary housing are entitled to
free transportation due to their vulnerable state. But in many cases in
New York City, the free transportation they get is not a big yellow
school bus, but a small yellow MetroCard for long, exhausting subway
trips.
“It’s not really fair,” said one mom living with her two children in a
domestic violence shelter who asked that her name not be used out of
privacy concerns.
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Source: NBC New York, I-Team Investigations
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