Erie County leaders confident in migrant school plan
More than 120 students from migrant families in Erie County are in school this week.
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More than 120 students from migrant families in Erie County are in school this week.
Erie BOCES 1, which the state uses to help districts, is involved helping to find more bilingual teachers. Those might be even harder to find now.
Education officials in Western New York are working to accommodate around 120 migrant children who will be attending local schools in the fall.
Some of the asylum seekers here in Erie County have school age children and that means efforts are underway to help migrant students head to a classroom this September.
The newly formed SMART group will meet throughout the school year to coordinate access to mental health services for students and families.